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The script is different in that the dialogue has been made a lot less confusing; they're very upfront with anything related to the Third Impact, disposing of all the cryptic non-clues and vague hints the TV series dabbled in. When Ramiel, the sixth angel, attacks, Misato takes Shinji right on down to the NERV basement and shows him Lilith, who now has a cool new abdomen made up of hundreds of pairs of human legs, and tells him that it's his job to prevent the Angels from making contact with Lilith or else the world will end, which isn't something we learn in the TV series until later on and even then it's pretty vague.

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Unfortunately, some of the changes they've made don't work. It's not clear why they decided to tinker with the show's ragingly screwed up emotional underbelly, but it's as if they've removed all the subtlety from the TV series. They're not properly building these characters this time; the only hint we have that Shinji and his terminally walled-off pops Gendo don't get along is a single flash of that famous picture of toddler Shinji crying next to his luggage, and yet in his very first reunion with his dad, who promptly tells him he's going to pilot the EVA-01, he immediately reacts by crying about it and pitching a fit about how he can't and won't and why me and all that blistering angst that generally took a little longer to get to in the TV series. Shinji was reluctant there, but here he's crying about it right off the bat. Other characters suffer from the same problem; some of the conversations are almost hilariously blunt, with Misato just outright discussing her mountain of personal issues as though she's explaining herself to the audience. They're not coming by all this tortured angst honestly; it feels largely out of context, and for many Evangelion fans, the fact that the entire cast was slowly revealed to be a pack of selfish, emotionally mangled mental patients was half the fun. Here they may as well be wearing tee-shirts that say “Hey guys, I'm pretty screwed up in the head!”. A return to some form of subtlety in the next three films would be nice.