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okay describe from your objective standpoint why a scene where shinji beating his meat was included in the 'wow cool robots' anime then
Because he's a fucked up kid. Don't need to read deeper into it than that.
i dunno, calling a kid fucked up for beating off doesn't sound very objective to me. Sounds like your own perspective and biases are bleeding through
The kid beat off to a comatose patient at a hospital
you know, maybe a person could examine why thats fucked up and get some kind of insight into the characters, but that'd require critical engagement with the fiction which would lead to... interperetations that only exist inside their head.
I mean you don't have to.
But it's the show is an art form. And we are allowed to interpret art from our perspective. In fact we should interpret art ourselves. That's what makes art do powerful.
You can choose a superficial interpretation, but it's much more fun and personally enlightening to actually think about what we interpret the show to be about.