Recently started and finished it.

It was alright, I suppose. There was nothing that really hooked me, the backstory was mostly absent, and the last two episodes were bloody awful - if I'd have known I'd be sitting through 40 minutes of self-discovery that made little sense (at least it was relevant when it was five minutes within an episode), I'd have ignored them and gone straight to the End of Evangelion alternative ending.

Unless I'm incredibly bored and have nothing else to do, I doubt I'll ever go back to NGE.