One thing that's a tad disappointing about 3.33 is that it's a much lamer version of the Kaworu plot than ep24. Ep24 of Eva TV is still amazingly well done in the last 9 mins from the start of Beethoven's 9th symphony until the final squeeze. Absolutely masterful direction and maybe that's why he didn't even try to do something on par with that in 3.33. Man, it's going to be so hard to top EoE with the incredible Eva 02 vs. Eva army fight, the Jesus Bleibet real world monologue & the goo montage. I feel bad for Anno, I don't think whatever he does in 4.44 will be able to match that

I should probably taper expectations....