Kendrix wrote:Rebuild and Meta go hand in hand, I guess.
Or maybe Anno is venting at all the bitching he got over 2.0 "Dear viewers, please accept that I'm not gonna do the same film twice" or shit.
But yeah, the magnitudes involved are huge, but I think some of it even works in Shinji's favor, in tems of justifying that he would act less rational with that much pressure and that much of a burden in it.
Yes, greater stakes should make you act more rational, but the weight is a factor of its own, as is someone's ability to grasp it.
1.0 has this scene that has Shinji musing "everything at all, that's such a big abstract word, I can hardly imagine what that means..."
That's like having a very long lever (As aristotle (or wa s it archimedes?) once said "Just give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I'll move the earth my my hands") that can make huge things happen with minimal touch, and that lever are the Evangelions...
And that's basically why putting 14 year olds in them is problematic, yeah.
It's sorta an intended part of the point.
To chose Rei over the world, he would've needed to know that there was such a choice.
In that situation, he couldn't have chosen Rei over the world if he'd wanted to, if not for anything else, then because of the "choice" part.
He didn't know the world was actually on the menu (other than by way of Zeruel winning)
As far as the information he had available to him went, saving the word and Rei went hand in hand, as far as he knew, both required him to kill Zeruel, and no one told him that his purple plaything could blow up the world if he feels a bit too pissed while sitting in it.
It's like when you're a doctor who saves people's lives, but say that you do it mainly because it earns a lot of money for your wife and kids, not because you're very altruistic and feel it's your duty to look after random injured people.
It's a question of your personal reasons for doing something, at no point do you make a choice between the people who come into your hospital and your wife and kids.
And if the scalpels that Doctor had been given turned out to be improperly sterilized by whatever nurse is responsible for doing so, no one would blame the guy and insist that he totally wanted to kill all the patients who got infections because of that because he said that his family was more important to him.
I know and as I said He didn't mean too. If he would of known he'd probably just kill himself because of the pressure
But anyways yes good point with the doctor It would be a hard choice