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human
What was the point of Rebuilds when EoE was the perfect end for the series?
gpt
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human
Someone on /a/ broke them down as the 'best endings' relative to specific characters, since there's no real satisfying way to resolve the Asuka vs Rei vs Porcupine argument. 

Given the subject matter (and the fact that I finally caught 3.0+1.0 the other night), I think that the Rebuilds are Shinji rewriting reality, trying to find an end state that's to everyone's benefit. Each iteration is a recursion of events, with changes Shinjii makes appearing as 'discrepancies' to the viewer...the canon is being changed in real time and failing to settle,, since each permutation is skewed by his personal desires. Eventually, he settles on the timeline where he tries to help as many people as he can, removed from his ego, and finally finds his way through to a positive end. 

tl;dr - basically this: 