First time writing a discussion post, mostly because I feel like I really want to enjoy what I'm being served. The visuals and direction are fantastic, aside from a few things that I'm not quite sure how I feel about yet. Mostly Obi's death and the general structure of the conversation between Sho, Shinra and Haumea. I like the approach of his flame being that easy to stoke out since at the end of the day he is just a guy, but the entire main plot of saving Obi in season 3 part 1 feels more like a forced conflict if he was always meant to die (even if he was only used as bait, they still planned on killing him there.) I like all the ideas present, like stacking despair and anger on Shinra until he snaps. At the end of the day he's still human with limits as to what we can endure mentally. As well as the very neat approach as to what the Evangelist represents and is. As always beautiful visuals and style, but as an anime-only watcher, I'm not holding my breath for them to kill every single person in the show like that, but if they do props. Only downside is there should have been much more weight to it than what we got. The pacing is always the issue when it comes to this season, it really could have used the extra padding to give the proper weight to these moments. I want to rate this season more highly but execution is teetering.