Reichu wrote:Generally, #17 and #18 were pretty straightforward, so having this giant cross, out of nowhere, improbably hanging off the bottom of a jumbo jet to transport an Eva (when no other Evas are ever transported via jumbo jet in so lamely nonaerodynamic a manner) feels like one of the more pointless examples of Pointless Religious Symbolism. ...
It was fairly odd that San was transported this way, across an ocean, when Nigouki was brought to Japan via the UN fleet. Maybe they just felt that there could possibly another underwater Angels?
Or, of course, it's just religious symbolism [\/] ...
Magami No ER wrote:Eh...the "pointlessness" could just be merely forshadowing of what's to befall Eva-03, and the whole connection with "Adam"(in the new viewers mind) on the cross.
I just that would seem significant if one were to actually watch the series in the correct order, spoiler free, something I didn't do for numerous tiring reasons...
Other then that, besides to look cool & visual alluring, one useless self-concocted possiblity could be that the transport team may have perhaps been a little Eva wary, considering what happened to Eva-04, and maybe... they didn't want her on the plane....
I don't think being on the outside of the plane makes any difference as to being inside when inverse space* swallows the entire thing anyways
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And I find that in general, Eva-aerial-insertions are damn cool ("Look,
another use for the shoulder pylons!") The Ryousanki being brought in on the underside of specialized stealth 'bombers' was kickass.
*Did I confuse it for something else, or is this what the Dirac Sea is? (I looked it up a while ago, but forgot...)
EDIT: I fixed your quote's name
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Originally posted on: 06.26.2006, 04:23 PM