my bad, im never to the point.
The original low-budget ending of the series? No. It does resolve Shinji's depression...sort of. He experiences ego death and self-actualization, which is dope; but other than that, it's so pretentious yet resolves literally nothing that it's not fulfilling. The bad guys win, all of humanity dies, and nobody ever resolves their problems; which would be cool if it was the directors' intent, but it's so obviously not.
The only other good thing is the high school "alternate reality" portion, while seemingly pointless other than "reality is what you make of it", suggests to me that all of NEG was a metaphor for an ordinary high schooler / mid schooler going through puberty, which I thought was really cool, which is why many scenes in that scene literally mirror the events of NEG. Pen pen as an alarm clock, Shinji getting slapped by Asuka for being unintentionally a pervert with the exact same "hand print" frame when Shinji first meets Asuka, Misato leaving her car to enter school with all the guys gawking over her which happened exactly in the show, Shinji falling on top of Rei and sexually touching her, like what happens in the show; etc. That's how I interpreted it.
Other than that, total trash. EoE was WAY better.
(I have way too much time to be thinking about this crap)
EoE is how it should have ended, as it at least resolves the plot; the bad guys don't win, Shinji and Asuka come to terms with who they are, the angels are all dead and the secret organization is all gone...I guess...
Yeah, I was irritated by the first two, but it was 3.0 where I really got that message loud and clear, and I just said "fuck this shit"