Spoilers for the Eva Rebuilds (but really, they make no sense even by Eva standards)
The Eva rebuilds are best approached as a fine vintage of the "Crackfic given an inexplicably huge budget" genre
They build up from "1.X wasn't bad as a redo of the first arcs I guess? I don't get the fanfare."
to
"Okay, Asuka's giant robot mom turned into a leopard. Now the leopard is tearing up a Final Fantasy whale-zeppelin powered by the soul of Yui Ikari."
re: Spoilers for the Eva Rebuilds (but really, they make no sense even by Eva standards)
Why we don't just fix the whole energy crisis by running the entire power grid off the soul of Yui Ikari I really don't know