Binged all 26 episodes of Evangelion in one night before I realized I should have watched the Director's Cut versions instead

Last Saturday I sat down for what I thought was a standard rewatch of Evangelion on Netflix. I got through the whole series in one sitting and felt like some scenes were confusing or missing context. It wasn't until I joined a Discord chat the next day that someone pointed out the Director's Cut episodes 21-24 have way more plot and character development. Has anyone else made this mistake with the streaming versions versus the original cuts?

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ross.kevin1mo ago

Wait so did you catch that they rearranged whole scenes or just added extra stuff? I always get mixed up on which streaming version has what.

ruby_patel271mo ago

Oh man, I swear that's how everything is now - you buy one version and later find out there's a different cut floating around somewhere. It's like how my grandpa's old garden tools somehow got "modernized" but lost all the good parts in the process.

ben_nguyen1mo ago

Director's Cut is overrated honestly. The extra scenes don't fix the core issues the show had. Netflix version gives you the same basic story without all the fluff. People act like those few minutes of extra content totally change everything but they really don't. If you need longer versions to understand the plot then maybe the show just isn't that deep. Been watching anime for 15 years and most "Director's Cuts" are just marketing gimmicks to sell you the same thing twice.