Our opinions differ on Eva (but not, I suspect, on what little Lost we've been exposed to >>;; I wasn't inspired to seek more of it out, that's for sure). That said, I get the feeling it's going to hold a roughly equivalent position in American geek culture re. obsessively looking up references and debating the meanings of things for some time to come--it already seems to've spawned this kind of activity in its fandom, and from what I hear of the ending (and its attendant reactions that are, yes, about as mixed as Eva), that won't go away for awhile.

Fanboys fanboying agressive deconstructions of their objects of fanboyhood (particularly Rei lol) is still unparalleled in the irony department though...I'm still waiting for something that funny to happen on American shores. Maybe it already has and I'm not aware of it. The closest I'm coming are women who crush on men written to be deliberately unappealing, and even then it's not nearly that pointed.