I dunno. Personally, I love the original, but Rebuild is too watered-down for me. They wanted it to appeal to a wider audience, so they basically turned it into a Cliff Notes version of the original show, and threw in a new token fanservice character with no real bearing on the franchise, ruined all the designs, and made it just like every other anime out there. Pretty sad. I guess Anno was upset that nobody "got him", so he sold out.