frustrating, incoherent, pretentious, badly paced

What I liked about the series was not the plot. I hated the ending.

How? It's in no way or Form a legtimate show, fanservice is its sole basis

Exactly. Evangelion is a meandering, slog of pointless dialogue and dead end plot points intermixed with a few interesting mech fights. The ending makes very little sense and the entire time you just want to slap the s*** out of the main character. At the same time, it’s an interesting and important view into…

The original manga has an extended hardcore lesbian sex sequence which has so little to do with the plot that it was cut from the original English release and most readers didn’t notice anything was missing.

I think the term “cult classic” can have a couple definitions, and you each were arguing a different one. On one hand, it could mean that it has extremely devoted followers regardless of popularity. On the other hand, it could mean it has a dedicated fanbase but was overlooked by the mainstream (which NGE was…

While I’ll concede Madoka Magica is the trope codifier for that particular genre of magical girl anime, I want to point people to Mai Hime. Although my friend will also point to Legendary Girl: Utena.

I literally told my wife yesterday that Evangelion is an anime I don’t like, but I respect it.

When one of your parents is an awful human being, it’s OK to say so out loud. See how that works Ivanka?

I think we’re at the stage of the origin story where the whole of Gotham loves the Penguin.

The whole gateway thing comes from unscrupulous dealers lacing weed with harsher shit in order to get them addicted to more expensive stuff. The logical solution is to make weed legal so it can be regulated and people can be reasonably sure they’re getting clean weed, but that doesn’t fit the “all drugs are evil”…

My take, regarding the gateway: anyone I’ve known who crossed the gateway were going to dive through it, weed or no.

If the gateway theory has any merit (and I think it may), the gateway drug in America is alcohol, and that’s only true because of the ridiculous regulation we still have, which is a leading cause of binge drinking.

Yep.

You’re saying you didn’t do any drugs in college? I think lots of us were dirt poor in school and still managed to at least drink beer and usually plenty else.

I think she’s keying in on the stories about “Millennials” (and it seems that generational grouping keeps expanding as people find ever younger folk they disagree with) and their predilection for avocado toast.

I went to undergrad in the early 00s, and graduate school in the middle 00s.

I remember subsisting largely on…

I’m suddenly reminded of the South Park episode where Cartman talks about kicking ass for 25 minutes, then bursts into whiny fat-boy tears after one punch in the arm. Anybody remember his opponent?

A lot of men go for a female lawyer in cases that have a gendered aspect because the crass tokenism acts a fig leaf  optics are better.

what happened that he ended up with a female lawyer anyway?

I imagine it’s a million or so variations of “well I actually took the time to read what he wrote and found it to be well researched and thought it had a lot of good points. He never ACTUALLY said men were better than women.”