I get the impression of a classroom by the wide windows and the whiteboard, and considering Fuyutsuki was her professor (Albiet pre-2nd impact) it makes sense. While the woman's hairstyle is Asuka-y, the glasses and the pink stripes on her shirt seem to point to Mari, which works with th...

A really good analysis, I have to give you big props for putting it all out clearly and concisely. One can only hope the evidence holds up and this is what Anno is doing. re: the final fight in 2.22 - I don't believe Eva-01 consumed the 10th angel. It beat the living snot out of it, but the goal...

I am kind of grateful I spoiled myself like crazy when this came out in November, it is way easier to take the film in when you aren't huffing and puffing and being afraid of change (Much like Shinji spends the entire film). It's painful to see how far our characters have fallen over...

I agree. On a side note, she might just refer to them as adults because she considers herself young due to having her physical aging stopped by the "curse", and her usage of the term may not relate to her actual age. Looking back a lot of her lines are open to interpretation. But it would...

- Where are they getting parts for so many Evangelions (possibly hinted at by "additional apocrypha" statement)? Are they just scrounging, cobbling together bits? Before the big timeskip reveal, I actually really liked that Unit-02 was cobbled together. I found it plausible with N...

I know this is an odd thing to say, this being Evangelion, but that big airship has kind of broken my suspension of disbelief. I guess I always enjoyed that Evangelion put an emphasis on logistics, that everything was spectacular but at the same time felt technologically feasible. The idea that havi...

Whenever Gendo hangs up, Kihl and co. listen to Styx and play Call of Duty games. I have no doubt that even if the human population was decimated twice over, Activision would still find a way to release a new CoD every year. I always figured Mari and Kaji were linked, since they both seemed to be a...

What the heck is anyone doing? Seriously. What is SEELE's master plan? What is Gendo's? Why did they have to wait years to enact these plans? Did they really go 14 years between Angel attacks? None of the characters seem to have a clear endgame. What is the deal with Mari? She came across as...

One thing that's been bothering me -- after 3I, who's been bankrolling Misato so she can set up WILLE? SEELE seemed to have hold of the global purse strings as before -- so where did she get the CapEx to put all the materiel together that she has in the series? The Trilateral Commission? Th...

Does anyone know if Gendo or Seele's plans are made even remotely clear? Are they still doing the whole instrumentality thing? Is there any clear reason to fly Unit-01 to the moon? Isn't Fuyutsuki getting too old for this shit? I guess nobody has elaborated on the status of the world post 3r...

Well, this is a lot to swallow. And it seems like it would have to be a pretty elaborate hoax to not be true. I guess it feels weird because it is so disjoint from what we are used to, and it also feels really disconnected from the world established in the two previous films. A lot of this is really...

I think there's a lot of dwelling in this thread on a relatively tiny portion of the review. Yeah, I agree the pedobear joke was pretty terrible, hell, I think he knew it when he wrote it. But he doesn't make that big of a deal of it, it just seemed odd to him. Also, I'm just inclined to...

Also something to consider: it might just be the first time he's actually seen sex. Considering his general attitude, I doubt he has much experience with porn, so it's probably a bit of a shocker. I agree with this assessment, he obviously has some concept of it but the actual practice of t...

It's interesting how they decided to make so many minor changes in the DC in terms of redrawing and whatnot. In many scenes, the DC version is practically the same and yet it was still redrawn. Was Anno (or whoever was in charge) simply unsatisfied with the original OA work and felt the...

You might be forgetting that in Instrumentality you all become one single lonely being . "You" cease to exist -- you basically die. The result of the complementation is then alone forever. Let's not forget that this is the reason why Shinji rejected Instrumentality. I'm not forget...

You do realize there's no sex, or talking or anything like that right? Since there is no physical body after all. Your pretty much dead in Instrumentality. A physical world is always better. You do realize there's no pain, poverty, disease, war, or anything like that right? Since there is n...

He's sexually repressed. Its kind of a step beyond prudishness but it ties into his general intimacy issues. He probably wants sex just like any other 14 year old boy, but he is so afraid of other people he can't cope with that. Beyond that its just really weird to see anyone you know on a n...

Not to stray too far off topic, but I think this might be an overstatement. Misato could be considered fractured, but she still tries her best to help Shinji throughout the series, and quite frequently DOES say or do the right thing. The trouble is (as she points out at some point) that she...

I would say yes in the sense that they fall under the same archetypal umbrella as, say, Luke Skywalker. I am not certain what level of scrutiny you want to put it under. I am not the biggest fan of OSC, but I did read up a bit and there are some similarities (The use of the hero as a military as...

While not physically old (At least not nescessarily), I have little doubt their policies, procedures, and way of thinking are quite outdated. Certainly the naked Ritsuko scene is proof enough of that. I know it was never explicitly stated but I got the impression Seele had been around for ce...