Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25266931-20161212225518/@comment-14138255-20161217002846

KNN005 wrote: Shinji was an apathetic coward who wanted to hide and turn his back on countless people's suffering just because he had issues with his father. Hell no I would not like Evangelion. He jerked off on his friend while she was in a coma. No thanks. You have a skewed version of how it actually goes. The only person in series who thinks of him as a coward is himself, but in reality he never once runs away when he is needed, he ends up rising to the occaision (even when he left for whatever reason). He also has a metric fuckton of shit happen to him, shit that'd break your already feeble mind. Him jerking off on his friend/love interest isn't the bad part (though it's pretty bad. If I made a live-action version of the final movie, I'd change it), the bad part is that he pretty much only talked to her (when she was suffering huge mental problems) when she was literally the last person on Earth. At the end of the day, he's only selfish and cowardly when brought to his lowest point (only happens at the very end), and he doesn't get the psychological help he needed to prevent that.

I would say get your head out of your ass, but that's impolite and not what I actually want to say. What I want to say is don't be self-righteous about things. I know what that's like, being holier than thou (even going so far as calling it "my thing"), and it does nothing but hurt you and the people you're close to (or the people who otherwise would have been close to), and doesn't even make you a better person.

Like it or hate it, Evangelion has sthe most accurate potrayal of clinical depression in any popular medium, and you can't deny it. Watching it might give you a perspective on how such things affect people, including you if you've been through the same thing.