Ok, the used cigarettes and the pencil-breaking. I think they are (what else?) phallic symbols. The cigarettes are limp, and the pencil is broken. Those symbolize the powerlessness of the JSSDF against the Angels. (You know how a cigarette is sometimes just a cigarette? Not if you're watching Eva, ...

Tip: You can put something to identify each scene as '' Ep01S02 '' so we can organize it more simply, even if it's informal, anyway, here are my comments: So, I do not want to be obvious and talk about Sachiel, I'd like to start with Ritsuko: the image shows no but Ritsuko seems to impose a strange ...

Is not there something like that already, like, Eva commentary Project? , Anyway, I wish I could comment on the episodes in a more informal way, I'm not the type to write theses or make very deep comments, so that seems perfect to me.

Gendo: Because I would not mind him having that evil behavior just for ego's sake, but then they fucked up saying that he wanted to join Yui. Misato: I liked Misato until episode 16, so she slapped Ritsuko, it's such a embarrassing moment, what did she want from Ritsuko?, Save her little boy instead...

^ If the only form of communication with others is through anonymity then yes that would lead to isolation. However, i think balance would be the answer, to have person to person relationships as well as reaping the benefits of the ease of communication that technology allows is the way to go. The ...

Before there was only nomenclature as a reference to Christian angels, but look at Ramiel as an example, even though they were already vague, let's see: '' Râmîêl (Aramaic: רעמאנל, Hebrew: רעמיאל, Greek: 'Ραμιήλ) is both fallen observer and angel in the apocryphal book of Enoch. Ramiel means "t...

pwhodges#864218 wrote:I think the OP is referring only to their visual appearances, not to how they operate and interact.

Exactly

Specifically the question is why sacrificing the design of two angels to express a vague symbolism of Christianity, to me does not make sense.

We have a luminescent bird, an equally bright eel and lastly a boy, Yes, I know, you're going to say that they all represent a symbolic sequence of the angelic stereotype of Christianity and so it's not worth discussing, but the question is , This is the height of symbolism! , what happened ? , They...

The Flying Fortress#863772 wrote: ... this after the Plug-suit failed in episode 19,

Sorry, * Dummy Plug

Asuka was expendable to him, just another pawn inhis game. Her life had no meaning to him. But she had utility as Eva's pilot for Gendo's plans, remember the dialogue in episode 24? , When Gendo tells Fuyutsuky that it would be a bad time to lose Unit 02 (I include Asuka in that), this after the Pl...

You still haven't really pointed out why having the symbols in the office is logically flawed. Okay , this is my last argument so I will not push anymore. Well, there's a lot of evidence in the anime that Gendo is an individual manipulator and likes to hide the facts, so I guess he would not be pre...

Going totally against the others on this topic, Evangelion has lost some of his charm to me, I do not know what happened, sometimes I seem to want to just see the flaws of the anime now, there are some things I preserve, the lessons he has gone through (Especially the last two episodes), I hold with...

Newspaper reading, beer-drinking penguin, and it's Gendo's interior design aesethic that you question? I still don't even think Gendo's office is logically flawed, just eccentric. Yes, it is foolish to waste time questioning the logic of an anime, but as you can see the created topic was with a fri...

They're not even really flaws in logic, and symbolism isn't even really an "excuse". NGE is a work of fiction, and things need to serve the plot and character work before they need to serve practical in-universe purpose. Given that this is animation also, they should be making full use of...

He doesn't need the space on a practical level. For purposes of storytelling and reflecting his character through visuals, it fits. Empty, barren, shadowy, unwelcoming, singly devoted to one thing. The silhouette of the desk is looming and monolithic, used to effect during his confrontation with a ...

^What? If you read the quotation marks in disgust, the phrase will make sense. Anyway, we conclude then that Gendo is a totally eccentric guy to put that in his office, Ikari is a very mocking man really, he puts the plan of instrumentality in the ceiling of his office because he knows no one will ...

You basically want to tell me, '' Who cares about this, it's just an anime, '' but they do not find a polite way to talk

I wanted to be me without a plot trap.

The Eva Monkey#638159 wrote:But it is pretentious, emo, and overrated. It's also really good despite all of that.

We can close this topic now.

The boy with emo hairstyles being the 17th angel, this was very funny.