Sailor Star Dust wrote:My whole point is 3.0's Curse of Eva isn't just a "fannish idea", it can be applied on several levels (in-story/Shinji, meta/audience) with the New Movies. While Asuka and Mari's Curse of Eva is more about them with Gunbuster Syndrome (they're left behind as everybody else ages), Shinji's personal Curse of Eva indicates his lack of maturity and why he's stuck at 14. His in the moment hotheadedness prevented him from listening to anybody, be it Wille's side or Kaworu, for one thing.
I don't know, I see Shinji being "stuck" at 14 years old more because of some massive conspiracy behind his back rather than any personal fault, I mean, how the hell was he supposed to know that saving Rei would result in "that"?
I agree that his moment of insane stubbornness in Lilith's Chamber that let him not listening was a glaring proof of immaturity (and batshit insanity), but the rest of his decisions thorough Q were fairly rational: seriously, he didn't had
any reason to stay in the Wunder, asked to Rei what happened, then to Kaworu, then once learning the truth decided to not touch an Eva ever again (perfectly in tune with what WILLE wanted) and only decided to do it one last time because Kaworu had a plan to not only thwart Gendo's plans, but also repair everything. (that and a good dose of guilt-tripping from Kaworu)
His only fault was ironically to not had been curious enough: not asking more details to Kaworu about what happened 14 years ago (if he started Third Impact, then who stopped it), more details about his plans and the spears, or about what the hell is the deal with Lilith and an Eva implanted where here head was before, or wondering how is it that Kaworu know so more and can walk outside the base without any protection.
Sailor Star Dust wrote:Do you mean this, regarding the Anno interview? He doesn't seem to say anything there about NGE vs NTE. The earlier one Numbers-kun translated doesn't mention NGE vs NTE either. http://forum.evageeks.org/post/761070/Anno-Retrospective-at-the-Tokyo-International-Film-Festival/#761070
Yes that's the one, in it Anno said that the message he wanted to convey in NGE isn't the one he feels he needs to pass in NTE.