Honestly outside of the plot Eva was always pgood Animation and production values have always been on point along with an amazing OST which continued on even in the rebuild series. Its main weakness has always just been the characters and the way they interact. People try attributing their horrible personalities to some deep psychological nonsense and Anno being bigbrained 5head but theyre all just retarded. This also continued in the rebuild series but with 2.0 it felt like they were moving forward at least with Shinji. Shinji finally mans the fuck up, puts on his big boy pants and clearly expresses what he wants for once (Rei) and almost ends humanity because of the weight of his massive balls dropping Then they literally throw ot all out next fucking movie for everyone to go back to being retarded. Toji's always been the best character simply because he's actually relatable