O.K., this tops any dream I've ever had for weirdness: I dreamed that I'd been ordered onto an exercise program that required me to take donkey rides. For some reason the donkey academy was on the airport grounds. While waiting my turn, I saw that these were bucking bronco donkeys and people...

I think you need to watch the episode again, man. This was all pre-arranged, it had nothing to do with her being insulted. And she did shut it down before it went critical, which probably was not the original plan at all but was improvised after Misato decided to put herself in harm's way. I...

Nice to see the concurrency issue still comes up from time to time :) My view on the final line (admittedly 10+ years old now) is here: http://www.angelfire.com/anime4/mdwigs/KimochiWarui.html I still stand by it :) Wow! It's also nice to see that MDWIGS still looks in on us fro...

That would only make sense if he was trying to get caught, but that's not what happened here. This was a private act, a secret shame he thought he could get away with, and he did (at least until instrumentality made all secrets public). Though I've always wondered how he got away wi...

Why assume Rei manifested it? I thought it was some sort of product of Aramisael's merging with the Eva. This. You just need to follow the dialogue. Rei makes Arimisael realize that she is lonely; Armisael immediately tries to resurrect the other Angels. The tower is manifested by Armisael, not...

As I said above, that doesn't make any sense. Besides, we already have a perfectly good reason for such a union to be forbidden -- each Seed has a different directive for terraforming a planet, and having two in the same place creates a fundamental, irreconcilable conflict. If you join the two ...

The show reveals, that Eva-01 possesses Yui's soul and that she's cloned from Lilith. It does? :cringe: Where exactly? Can you tell me the episode/the scene/ or at least the character saying that? I must have totally missed it. All I remember is the statement of SEELE at the beginning of Eo...

It would help if we had some idea as to why Toji was in that scene to begin with. I don't think we've ever figured out the why of it, and that makes using it as evidence for anything kind of sketchy. The best explanation I've seen, at least from a narrative standpoint (I think this ...

Because her soul was in a body that looked like Rei at the time. For the same reason we can Skype with someone in Israel and someone in Peoria at the same time but can't Skype with someone from 1944. So you're saying that Lilith is consciously using her entire soul, including the portion th...

We are explicitly shown that Rei's soul is still with us at the end of EOE:

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AR-99#695357 wrote:The first UY I ever watched, imagine my confusion at what was going on, the same thing happened when I saw the first Ranma movie without prior exposure. Still watched both several times.

You think you were confused? The first UY I watched was the third movie.

Miami Connection . Like I've said before, there's no way to describe it other than Scott Pilgrim vs. the Room . Miami Connection is a hoot; it's like Miami Vice if the writers had been on LSD. Also, if you live here in Central Florida there's the fun of spotting familiar people and ...

There's no reason why Gojira couldn't look more like an actual dinosaur But the problem with the '98 film was that he wasn't a dinosaur. The disastrous decision to make him a mutated modern day creature instead of a revived prehistoric creature was the font from which all the other ...

You know what pisses me off about this movie? People say Smaug like they have a speech impediment and have had a handful of strokes, and they've got that George Lucas neck that makes it hard to talk, so you're like forcing it out and you sound even worse. In my version of the book it's ...

What an idiot Jackson is. The thing that leaped out at me that I don't think has been mentioned here yet is that in this movie Bard already knows about the hole in Smaug's armor! It's part of the "Legend of Smaug". So the main character is no longer the one who figures out how ...

riffraff11235#689535 wrote:Hanamonogatari slated for 2014 release.

From the looks of things it's going to be a single arc rather than a full cour.

But there's still no sign of Kizumonogatari.

This is taking a really big leap and assuming that Seele didn't salvage it out of Adam in the first place. We can't know if it went back or not. I'm not going to try to fathom what happened after second impact, but I believe that since Adam's body was mostly intact by the end of the...

1. What drove Shinji into approve the 3. Impact / instrumentality? 2. What drove Shinji into rejecting instrumentality? 1. An accumulation of circumstances, including his false perception that he had no worth outside of piloting Eva, and Asuka's rejection of him in Pre-Instrumentality. 2. His r...

Bagheera#669420 wrote:True, though as a point of order it's canon, not cannon. We're talking bodies of work, not pre-modern artillery!

Ouch! I hadn't made that mistake in years.

Where does the Death & Rebirth Theatrical Theatre Program (Special Edition) sit in the hierarchy of canon? It appears to have a massive disconnect from the series when it says in the biography of Rei: which is entirely incompatible with her being cloned (in whatever manner) afte...