As Comic Buyer’s Guide puts it, “Evangelion is a giant robot saga the same way Twin Peaks was a cop show.”

100% agree.  TV show is where the hype is.

Also, the constant cicada sounds are incredibly annoying. Yes, I know cicadas exist, and it’s there to add realism... but I don’t need to get punched in the dick to relate to it happening on screen. Down with the cicada sounds! Also... is it just me or do the spend a lot of time showing power lines?

The comic has an extra scene where Misato takes in Pen Pen as he used to be a lab animal, and she both has a heart for hard luck cases as well as always living alone herself and wanting company. She opens up about it with Shinji to encourage him to live with her, as all three are broken and can support each other.

The story is about child soldiers forced to pilot giant mechs to defend a ruined Earth from giant monsters and total oblivion. That is honestly a small part of it, stellastar42's answer the larger piece of it.

It’s a 90s post-modern nostalgic rehash of giant robot shows from the 70s and 80s that uses the tropes and format of the same to tell a story of personal growth and healing in an unforgiving society. 

Well, yeah, sure that's part of it....

I liked Little Nicky the first time I watched it, but I was drunk.  It did not hold up on repeat viewing.

“Of course, as viewers, we always had the choice of stopping the time loop by simply turning Netflix off.” I no longer believe this is possible.  

Now I’m imagining that awful, awful ending, and Supes is off to the side going, “Guys, could you please do that somewhere else? Trying to fix the sun here.”

I too felt it should have been Agatha. I wasn’t clear on why sinking was a death sentence to someone who would soon be undead. My understanding of being undead was that you basically become a vampire but how feral you are is based on how well you retain your original conscious and what you consume. It would have been…

Don't you dare bring All Star Superman into this. It's done nothing to you to deserve that. 

Maybe they were just, like trying to fix the sun or something?

THIS. That character/performance was a mesmerizing gift. I mean, here is someone seated at a table for two-thirds of the episode, and they were just riveting.

Oh my god I love the real-world historical intersections Watchmen does

Point of interest: The badge pinned on Will was by Samuel J. Battle: The first NYC black police officer and real life historical figure.  

Are we all ignoring that in-universe, Donald Trump’s father was killed by the first costumed vigilante?

I think there have been a number of stories about people in a confined space, even a theater, being pushed to violence by some sort of outside agent like subliminal messaging or a virus or something.

Interesting you bring up Agent Carter as this plot was essentially ripped from the old Captain America and Falcon comics plot about the Mad Bomb. It was essentially a psychic bomb that would drive people insane, causing them to riot and attack people. And, it was used in Harlem to strike at Falcon as the person behind…

Watchmen is a commentary on American politics of the 1970s and 1980s by way of the superhero comics genre, an American-born art form. It wears its meta-ness on its sleeve. Watchmen may be brilliant as a form of metatextual literature, but as a form of critique on American history it falls short in the way that a…