Because Death was already pretty much a ripoff anyways, heh. Though still not as bad as Rebirth, scarily enough. but they could have put any other scene in the series to fill most of the time Shinji was holding kaoru, so why didn't they? the only logical answer is because that scene was intende...
The purpose behind the final scene of Death is to set things up for Rebirth/Ep 25' . That's why we get the end of Ep 24'. You don't just "insert scenes" when you're doing that, as it breaks the flow. It would also have messed up the timing with the music i'm saying...
Because Death was already pretty much a ripoff anyways, heh. Though still not as bad as Rebirth, scarily enough. but they could have put any other scene in the series to fill most of the time Shinji was holding kaoru, so why didn't they? the only logical answer is because that scene was intende...