It's the matter. It's the only common factor between them. I know. We agree that PWM is what enables voodoo. Where we differ primarily is on the properties and components of exactly what PWM is. It's not a theory, it's fact. Those beings never had an ATF to shape them until soul-sal...

You said according to your theory souls don't linger after death. I say this is wrong cause Rei wasn't paying these bodies a vist for no reason. Huh? I apologize if I ever seemed to, but no. I'm perfectly aware that a soul hangs around after death. Ok look, this has nothing to do with w...

No you don't cause Rei went to their dead bodies to collect something and the only thing she was collecting was souls. This doesn't contradict anything I've said. Yes it does. RITSUKO: Correct. We do know the Angel is composed of a type of matter characterized by both particulate and wa...

So why don't people tang immediately upon death? Cause their souls are still in their bodies hence why Rei went to collect them from the dead people in NERV HQ or Anno didn't think it through. Take your pick but I think it's a combo of the 2. By all rights a severed limb should tang ins...

It was grafted on his hand. And at any rate, this seems to be a moot point given....whatever this discussion's about. This discussion is now about Asuka shyly undressing herself in your avatar. No. This discussion is about Rei popping pills. Do we ever see two separate shots of the same dresser...

So why don't people tang immediately upon death? Guess I chose a wrong time to get poetic. I mean "life" as in "the essence of life", not necessarily being alive. The substrate that holds organic matter into a configuration that makes life even possible. My macromei knows no...

Strangulation for no reason? That sounds in line. I've never read the manga, but everything I've been told and shown about it has given me the impression that Sadamoto was somehow out to 'one-up' the original by erring on the side of the pointlessly hardcore. (Manga spoilers)...

Man this thread was hard to read through. Deep detailed discussion going on, in between tangents. But I wanted to make sure I'm not repeating anyone with this suggestion, a theory in development: We know souls create ATFs. ATFs hold a life-form's shape... even microorganisms's (ep21&...

Why bare hands, and what's the fuckup? That Sadamoto forgot he established it's a shot and not pills that keep Rei together?

Less notably, in ep20 she refers to Eva-01 as "not just an Adam copy, because it's imbued with a human will" (the subtitles omit but you can clearly hear her say "Adamu copy"), although it's to Misato and lying to her is nothing new. They didn't omit anything...

I already know that interpretation, Zuggy. The problem is that while each part of it makes sense on its own, as a whole it's aimless. Each part doesn't build properly on the last towards its point (justification to destroy dummies), according to what I know of Japanese composition. B...

@Monk Ed Yes -- which is why I say that the support is primarily extra-textual. NemZ argues well the case when reading the text alone , as a good post-modernist should; and I agree with his PoV. Did they say she was making a very conscious, overt offer, or was it a straddling-a-fine-line kind of th...

Hang on a minute. When you say Newtype, do you mean there was an interview or something where someone from the production staff said Misato was definitely offering Shinji sex?

I think Ritsuko pretty much knows as much as Fuyutsuki does; there is the overriding question of "how much about Nerv's ultimate goal actually being Gendo's private drive to get back with Yui" did other staff members know about. Still, in public when she goes "that just can&#...

(Edit: removed a factual error. Also, I've since cut down my thesis from "Ritsuko might not have known about Lilith" to "Ritsuko might not have known that Rei is made from Lilith", but I leave this post otherwise intact for the sake of record.) Continuing this discuss...

Speaking of the episode, i had always thought that the sea of dirac was the result of a failed merge between the S2 engine and unit 04. Analogous to some sort of organ rejection in organ transplants. That is one hell of an organ rejection. According to that episode, the real reason was never found ...

C'mon, she's second highest up person around and knows all the dirty details and secrets. You can't except she doesn't know about Lilith Fuyutsuki is the one who's the second highest, and clearly the only one who knows the fullest extent of the plan, and the only one Gendo appea...

That's pretty much what I meant. (...) I stick with "she just wants a hug". Man. Wish I'd come up with all that. I'd forgotten what sort of binary thinking geek-speculation-mode tends to put me in. But that was just downright sensible. Now I'm convinced back the ot...

do the plugsuits have systems for waste 'evacuation?' if so i could imagine an pilot could live within an s2 equipped eva nearly indefinitely. Or maybe they wouldn't need to. If the LCL is supposed to be analogous to placental fluid, and being in the entry plug to being in the womb, the...

Reichu wrote:These details weren't worked out in the show, so you basically get to "make shit up".

As a fic writer myself, this is how I think of these kinds of things.