Says the guy who clearly didn’t even watch it

​I see we’re getting into a subjective argument again. ​EoE is widely known on the internet for not being a conclusive ending. It’s highly philosophical and completely lacks closure. Ever since the 2000s, people have complained about how ambiguous it is. Plus, no one knows what actually happens to Asuka, Shinji, or humanity as a whole once EoE ends. There’s a huge amount of religious symbolism and metaphors that never glue together, much less get explained. ​The pacing is faster in the first half, and then it just turns into delirious psychological metaphors. Instrumentality is central to the plot, but not once does the show make clear what it is or what purpose it serves. ​If that’s your standard for an “amazing show, well-written, well-animated, well-paced, and with plots resolved in a satisfying way,” you’re completely completely out of touch with what most reviews say. You’ve probably just been watching a lot of garbage.

But again, there are some garbage movies I watched and I liked it, but I don’t go out of my to defend them cause i know they’re garbage

You like death note, simple as that, and there’s no problem with it. I went in with no prejudices, actually quite excited cause a friend pumped up my expectations, and by episode 3 or 4 I already dropped it cause the dialogue and the script are, to my taste, completely childish garbage.

I can’t see a game of cat and mouse, but two extremely self-important, overstuffed characters portrayed (especially L) as extremely intelligent guys, but they’re in fact just dumb.

Actually, not even as a kid I’d watch something like that.

And I like thrillers, Death Note is just not a good one imo.

But again, idk why you’ve been arguing to the contrary, that’s a matter of taste and its subjective. Some people hate evangelion and noragami, for example, whereas they’re two of my favorite animes. And I dont try convincing them otherwise

It’s okay to dissent

Then God invented the commas

I have no PC. You wouldn’t dare to write and format that on a phone, it’d take an hour or more.

If you can’t see the fake intellectuality and garbage dialogue from that show as bad, okay, one can really like any show if their weakest points aren’t a bothering factor for me.

I dont like those though, i like state of the art writing and production, and in the anime world Sosou no Frieren is an example: I simply saw no flaw in the show and where it does drop in quality it is negligible, absolutely staying way above garbage-level shows.

That’s what makes a masterpiece, not that it’s dlawless, but that it is crafted with much care everywhere, and it’s consistent. Shows nowadays have quality fluctuate a lot. Doesn’t ruin shows but the wider and frequent the variance the harder it is for the producers to keep it all together

I see you’re unhindered by overall bad production, which is fine, you dont have to hate anything you watch really.

Im otherwise very bothered by sloppy production and writing.

Evangelion endings are a waste of time and energy imo, i consider the show fo have no ending and still enjoy it that way

Not sure why you think so, nowadays network switches handle several terabits already, and on the consumer side there’s always premium routers

I generally don’t care whether a show is “woke” or not, but some people do, which is why I mentioned it.

Shōgun is an exception. It is based on an Englishman who achieved extraordinary things in feudal Japan. The writers seem to have viewed his story as a white savior narrative and rewritten Blackthorne into the exact opposite of the real figure.

The real Adams was intelligent, educated, skilled, a fighter, a sailor, a shipbuilder, adaptable, learned Japanese, became involved in politics, and rose to the highest position a foreigner could realistically achieve there. The show’s Blackthorne is given protagonist-level focus but is portrayed as slow-witted, oblivious, unable to adapt, and a complete underachiever. He accomplishes nothing significant and never grows into the role. His portrayal often makes him come across as if he has some kind of cognitive impairment.

Shōgun is still a great show, but Blackthorne holds it back. With Toranaga, Mariko, or another character as the lead, it could have been a masterpiece.

Evangelion has three endings, and I didn’t like any of them. They’re all abstract, symbolic, and open to interpretation rather than proper conclusions.

Game of Thrones is excellent through Season 4, and Season 5 is still good, even if it’s already slower.

From Season 6 onward, it falls off hard. The Season 6 finale isn’t bad, but I don’t think it’s a masterpiece. It wipes out years of complex storylines in one move just to simplify the plot, and that approach defines Seasons 7 and 8. By then, David Benioff and D. B. Weiss had already decided to end the show earlier than HBO wanted, despite the network being willing to keep it going.

I have high standards for TV, and Game of Thrones never came close to fulfilling the potential of its early seasons.

Ignore the death note comment. I fed my main points into Gemini Pro and it hallucinated that.

I fixed it now, take a look

You are free to think whatever you like

TV Shows

Must Watch

• Breaking Bad
• Better Call Saul
• Chernobyl
• Peaky Blinders
• Dinosaurs

Highly Rated (With Caveats)

• The Wire: A timeless masterpiece, but the extremely slow pace requires pushing through the first season.
• Band of Brothers: Excellent, but historically did Captain Sobel dirty—he wasn’t like that.
• Primal: Extremely good, but the story ends at Season 2. Season 3 is an unnecessary overextension.

Good Shows (Minor Caveats)

• Narcos: Enjoyable until Escobar (the star) is captured, then it loses its appeal.
• Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord (El Patrón del Mal): Less dramatic but more accurate and highly enjoyable than Narcos.
• Dune: Prophecy & House of the Dragon: Good overall, but heavily woke. They take too many liberties and squander their superior source materials.

Great for Uniqueness, Story, or Style (Major Caveats)

• Game of Thrones (Seasons 1-4): The absolute best TV ever made. It doesn’t top Breaking Bad only because the later seasons are absolute garbage.
• The Sopranos: Great episodic show, but slow. The overarching story wasn’t the main focus; six seasons could have been condensed into three.

Shows That Don’t Live Up to Their Name

• Dark: Starts great, but convoluted rules in Season 2 and Deus ex machina plot devices in Season 3 ruin it.
• Shōgun (2024): Unremarkable. Unfaithful to the source material due to wokeness, specifically erasing Blackthorne’s protagonism because he’s white.
• The Expanse: A convoluted, messy dumpster fire.
• Westworld: A convoluted, messy dumpster fire.
• Euphoria: Hot Gen Z garbage.
• A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Pure hype with no justification to exist. Spends 6 episodes on Dunk, an absolute loser and terrible fighter, whereas the show was advertised as being about Aegon Targaryen, who barely gets screen time in the show

Anime

Must Watch

• Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End (Sousou no Frieren): A beautiful, clean, family-safe show with no fan service. The appeal is the whole package.

Good Shows (Minor Caveats)

• Noragami: Beautiful, but not a masterpiece; sequels dip in quality.
• Psycho-Pass: Genuinely good Minority Report-style premise. Season 1 is amazing.
• Mob Psycho 100: Good comedy, but relies on repetitive tropes after Season 2.
• One Punch Man: Extremely funny great premise, but the quality drop after Season 1 shouldn’t have happened.
• Dragon Ball / Dragon Ball Z: Legendary but too long (Kai is the shorter alternative).

Great for Uniqueness, Story, or Style (Major Caveats)

• Neon Genesis Evangelion: Very unique. The writer projected his mental issues onto a weird cast, the protagonist is a loser, and it has no proper ending.
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood: Good, but overhyped. Suffers from forced humor, quality drops near the end, and a predictable “happily ever after” ending.
• Fullmetal Alchemist (2003): Much darker, serious, and extremely good, but the animation is garbage.
• Tokyo Ghoul: Only good until Season 2 before major quality dips.

Shows That Don’t Live Up to Their Name

• Death Note: A bad show imo. The premise is amazing but the characters are so obnoxious that i dropped it

EDIT:

Forgot to mentione The Last of Us. Pretty good show with story close to the original. I rated it an 8/10 on IMDb.

Issues it has if you liked the game though:

• Bella Ramsey was severely miscast as Ella. Ellie in the games is a fierce, humorous and lovely girl, who’s matured too early. On the show she tries to be but isn’t funny, she’s aggressive and lacks self control. You’ll have to accept it for what it is, two different characters altogether.
• Season 2 has some noticeable defects
• It inherits the game’s plot, which is amateurish at best *Some parts are rushed
• Take the already ridiculously written character of Abby Anderson and miscast an actress for it to, and there you have it
• Kaitlyn Dever was supposed to be Ellie, and i think she’d work really well as her. They miscast that one and they used Kaytlin as Abby, who has a totally different personality

In the end i think it’s not a terrible show, but it could easily have been a much better one