I think Shinji is directly related to N3I/3I. He was a trigger for something, he was a bottle opener, however you'd like to think of it, he played a role in a scheme larger than himself. But to the level of his relation or whether 3I was a big event with respect to the 14 years that followed is some...

Curse of Eva, sequel theory is what I've been going with

I'm pretty sure Evangelion causing depression has been a joke(with real truth to it) around here for some time. Personally, I can attest. I've shown the show to several people and I've noticed their moods drop. The guy who even introduced it to me was exhibiting some symptoms of depression. I person...

I do, and I in fact was going to make a thread on this. I think Anno did drugs in the production of Evangelion. The concept of the AT field is something straight out of an acid trip. However, I believe Anno ingested a strong dose of hallucinogenic mushrooms when producing the End of Evangelion. I ha...

I'm going to need to hire a secretary to get back to this thread...

(from pg2 onwards...) pwhodges brings up an interesting point that I had not considered at all: in the second movie, Ritsuko shouts to Shinji that if he proceeds further, he will lose his humanity. He does so anyways. She literally spells out danger to him and yet he proceeds further, undist...

I updated the OP and will try and respond to other thoughtful posts as I have more time to read and write.

Before I begin, I'd like to bring out a disclaimer. The third Rebuild movie is undoubtably a factory of bad emotions for many of us. Our prized main character is bullied into doing some powerful things. The movie as a whole brings a complete turn of events, one that none of us could have really ...

I think I theorized somewhere on one of OMF’s threads that the monoliths might have contained the souls of Seele themselves, and that Gendo didn’t really kill them, but rather had transferred them to Mark.09, hence both the deactivation of the monoliths as well as the Seele infiltration in both Mar...

Yep, the book is the "Happy prince and other stories" by Oscar Wilde and its story can be directly compared to Shinji's journey throughout 2.0 and 3.0. Kaworu being the Happy prince of the tale, Shinji being the swallow (protagonist) and Rei being the reed(...) The &qu...

What books were the ones in Q?

The Happy Prince I must have mistaken for Sleeping Beauty - sounds a lot more reasonable now.

Right. The theme of saving the princess is definitely noticable in Q. I'd like to swing the direction of the conversation in another direction though... I'm going at this from memory, but in one of the NTE movies, Rei is reading a book. Shinji makes reference to reading being something that ...

Sort of; but we don't have any further details of how that works. Her body has certainly lived for another fourteen years, so it's undeniably a twenty-eight-year-old "fourteen-year-old" body, with the implications for wear (as I said) and muscle development, for instance, ...

Actually, she did say "There's no way I could have done it on my own." Did she? Maybe I'm wrong on that point then. But, even if she said that, that's a statement about her over-predicting her abilities, not her feeling bad that others helped. In NGE she seemed much more strai...

Asuka definitely seems like she has a lot less psychological problems than in the previous series. There's a lot of mystery surrounding her Evangelion unit as well; there's no real mention of her mom being a contact experiment. I don't think there is a general baseline for Eva units need...

The TV series ended with optimism, EOE ended with optimism. the manga ended with optimism so naturally we can assume rebuild will end with optimism also EoE did not end with optimism. Instrumentality ended with optimism but the movie ending, with Shinji strangling Asuka on a beach, brought a sense ...

I don't think the lessons are the same from NGE to NTE, though they are, in some places, similar. The reason it's the Rebuild of the series is because things are simple different. But I have thought out this topic before and so I can share. The Titles The titles are from Shinji's perspec...

A part of me finds that difficult to imagine with Rei's would-be sobering response and attitude. It certainly is plausible though, considering the gap of events is open for discussion for a reason.

Do you mean the anxiety scene with the close up on his eye? I don't believe he fainted or anything. I think it was just a cut transition, showing him at the peak of his panic attack, contrasted with the quiet confinement in his room afterward. Okay. If you feel that, what happened in between? I...

I don't think this has been discussed before but I think it could be worthwhile to discuss. In Q, Shinji faints when Rei Q rejects Shinji's attempt at keeping his shit together("I saved you back then, right Rei?!"). He has a mind trip moment and wakes up in his room, angril...