umm.... I'm going to need a lot more convincing before I'll believe that any of these parallels actually exist. Second impact, for instance, killed one third of the world's population and ended the passage of seasons. How is that like Perry opening Japan to foreigh trade? How is finding ...

well...to a certain point, what is evil to you might seem to be okay to others... ex: suicide bombings People who think that suicide bombings are okay are as evil as the suicide bombers. This notion that everything is a matter of opinion is one of the worst things to come from post-modern philosophy.

I find it very disturbing that some people don't realize that there is such a thing as evil in this world.

As for the two "dolls", if they 'represent' anyone, it would be Asuka and Hikari (one brunet, one redhead), who, you'll recall, have a scene in #18 in a playground with a sandbox as the sun sets, in which they discuss what a hopeless nerd Shinji is... I suppose that...

I don't feel your examples are suggestive in the least, thewayneiac. Those just look like normal designs to me, and any resemblence to genetalia is merely the working of teenage minds. The movie, however, is a totally different story. Nerv headquarters is just a probable sighting, but I stand b...

I love audio commentary, it's the only real reason I bought the EoE DVD. You're joking, right? And substitute the normal episodes for the Director's Cut. Why would he wan't to do that? The DC. eps. are essential for understanding EOE. But, to get to my answer to the question: whatev...

That's not the only time we see that in Evangelion. Check out the shape of Unit-01's eye in Ep. 2.



Also, the shape of NERV headquarters is rather suggestive.

I think the problem is that some people leave the TV. series with notions of what the show is about, and then get upset when some of their theories turn out to be wrong. Instead of rethinking their ideas and saying, "Oh! So that's what they were getting at!", they proceed to denounce E...

Episode 20 has no plot holes, it has a plot MISTAKE !!!! Shinji was in civilian clothes in episode 19, but when he was absorbed by the eva, the clothing was changed by the plug suit. It's a mistake, accept it. THey put the line of Ritsuko just to fix the mistake. And also that line gave a cool ...

HERE is one of the posts where she mentions it.

Reichu wrote:If he's a clone of anyone we "know", it's Prof. Katsuragi...

Does this mean you've abandoned your theory you used to post on the A.N. board that he was cloned from Kiel's dead boyfriend?

Not long ago I had it out with Gundumpilotspaz on this very issue in THIS thread. (I think I won because he stopped posting first.) I linked to the post where I first questioned his statement that choosing instrumentality would have been a happy ending, but the entire thread is excellent.

Yes, Nadia is a great show. But be aware of one flaw: it was so popular that the network increased the episode count from 26 to 39 after production had started. Anno couldn't figure out how to add that much more plot, so about 2/3 of the way through, we suddenly get about 10 filler episodes in a...

Lilith's soul can be in more than one place at a time, (multiple Reis collecting souls simultaneously), so Lilith's soul could still be in Lilith, along with Rei and Unit-00, even without the soul severability theory. Presumably the same would apply to Adam's soul. If Lilith sti...

SPOILERS!!! I finally saw the ending yesterday, and I must admit, I was HIGHLY disappointed. To me, the show was really working on something important: the notion that there is no escaping reality. Then, Sasshi sees that Arumi is crying, and cannot bear to see her sad. So, he calls upon Eutus to tak...

How exactly the Rei tank is, "the core of the Dummy System", is one of the toughest things to figure out in the series. However, there is evidence that the Rei clones aren't physically being turned into Dummy Plugs. In ep. 23, if you look closely at the controller in Ritsuko's hand...

i dont think he heard anything... he was just hallucinating...or something... unless they were all in the same entry plug i doubt that there would be any group dreaming... and as for the train...i guess it represents part of Shinji, as he always ends up taking the train to run away but never does.....

I never said they weren't linked, that would be contradictory to evidence supported within the series itself. My view is that not everything that happened during complementation was interaction with others. Watch the TV ending, which Anno admits, runs concurrently with EoE. Quotes like "I ...

Actually, the cuts seemed to depend on where in the series the angel appeared. Nearly all the cuts were in Vol 5. (EPs. 10-16. ep. 7 bit the dust too, but that's no loss.) The first 4 volumes were more or less 2 episodes per vol: 1. 1-2 (Actually ends half way through ep. 2) 2. 3...

Shinji did not decide to accept Third Impact solely because of that scene, he was already under the impression that he was hated by all of those around him, a self-defense mechanism. Certainly Shinji's psychological problems are the underlying cause, but what happens in this sequence is the imm...