C.T.1290 versus Asuka. Examining the good and bad.

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Postby pwhodges » Fri Mar 02, 2018 3:12 am

Or at least, consequences like or approaching those ones. And the answer is, no he didn't, and we are even shown that through the fact that Misato, for instance, didn't either until it was too late.
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Postby Asuka'sBigBrother » Fri Mar 02, 2018 9:24 pm

View Original PostGob Hobblin wrote:It's not accidental: his desires and his feelings were 100% true in that moment. The question is whether or not he knew that his feelings in that moment would have actual consequences.

didn't he say "you can all die!" before killing everyone?
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Postby C.T.1290 » Fri Mar 02, 2018 9:35 pm

View Original PostAsuka'sBigBrother wrote:didn't he say "you can all die!" before killing everyone?

He did, yes. And I believed he was in the right for initiating Third Impact. Since no one ever gave a damn about him, "they can all just die!"

And I'm wondering if he would be better off being alone with no one to bother him, or to give him any troubles, or even to hurt him.
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Postby Asuka'sBigBrother » Sat Mar 03, 2018 12:36 am

View Original PostC.T.1290 wrote:. And I believed he was in the right for initiating Third Impact.

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Postby C.T.1290 » Sat Mar 03, 2018 12:44 am

View Original PostAsuka'sBigBrother wrote::facepalm:

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Postby Gob Hobblin » Sat Mar 03, 2018 1:17 am

Your misanthropy is getting exhausting, CT.

ABB: How many times, as a child, did you scream that you wanted to die, or that you wanted someone to die, or you wanted everyone to die, when you were miserable?

Children have a very loose concept of consequence: him simply saying "I want you all to die" does not mean he knew or understood that his desires or statements would lead to results, or what those results would be.
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Postby Reichu » Sat Mar 03, 2018 2:40 am

By the time Shinji was thinking he wanted everyone to die, he was a puddle of sludge (again) whose relationship with reality had been completely broken. He had just been talking to a bunch of dead people and replaying memories and in a state of being where absolutely none of this insanity was being questioned. Kind of like dreaming, really, except most dreams aren't prefaced with you being psychologically and physically tortured to the point that your body spontaneously destroys itself. Then you get tortured some more.

I don't think this is a "child" thing so much as a "being very deliberately poked and prodded into providing the crucial piece of a disastrous metaphysical reaction, while being in absolutely no state to know about this on any remotely meaningful level, and hence not having any idea that gods are spelunking around in your soul for emotions they can use to power the apocalypse".
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Postby Gob Hobblin » Sat Mar 03, 2018 4:07 am

No, I agree: Shinji was emotionally and mentally broken to the point that he was unable to be trusted with anything, even if he HAD been a paragon of good decisions prior to that.

You can't factor out the fact that he is a child, and that in and of itself also has a big effect on one's decision making ability (in terms of decisions with short-term ramifications, much less apocalyptic ones!). When combined with the breaking he received, it's really not surprising what he said. I doubt, however (based on what you said, Reichu, and what I feel regarding his maturity), that he stated that with the active intention and idea that the world would die.

It's a difference between, say, manslaughter and murder, but it does matter a huge deal.
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Postby Asuka'sBigBrother » Sat Mar 03, 2018 11:44 am

View Original PostGob Hobblin wrote:I doubt, however (based on what you said, Reichu, and what I feel regarding his maturity), that he stated that with the active intention and idea that the world would die.

This might be supported by the tv version of events. I recall some dialogue suggesting he didn't know this would be the result of him getting what he wanted.
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Being neglected by some poeple(who except for mom and dad, have no obligation to give you attention), does not justify killing everyone. That's might be the most asinine thing I've heard, well, ever.
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Postby Gob Hobblin » Sat Mar 03, 2018 12:00 pm

This might be supported by the tv version of events. I recall some dialogue suggesting he didn't know this would be the result of him getting what he wanted.


Indeed! In fact, remember how Lilith broke through Shinji's AT Field: she used a projection of Kaworu.

That means she still had to convince Shinji to let down his guards, which indicates he was not truly suicidal, or intent on bringing about an act of destruction. He demonstrated a wish, but with no clear idea of it's consequences.
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Postby C.T.1290 » Sat Mar 03, 2018 4:39 pm

View Original PostAsuka'sBigBrother wrote:Being neglected by some poeple(who except for mom and dad, have no obligation to give you attention), does not justify killing everyone. That's might be the most asinine thing I've heard, well, ever.

It is justified when some people, regardless of whom, has done nothing but made him miserable, so he chose to share his misery with others.

No one gave a damn about him. He was despised by everyone, similar to how I was being despised by everyone on this site right now as of late.

So, because of that, and seeing how none of the characters were that great anyway, he made the right choice to end everything and everyone. Plus, I don't think I really like the characters as I used to, so why should we care if they were killed off?

But never mind what this dumb, obstinate, unpleasant, and annoying person has to say, he doesn't matter to anyone anyway.
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Postby Guy Nacks » Sat Mar 03, 2018 5:04 pm

View Original PostC.T.1290 wrote:No one gave a damn about him. He was despised by everyone


Rei II and III despised him?
Misato despised him?
Maya despised him?
Ritsuko despised him?
Kaji despised him?
Aoba despised him?

Side note: Asuka doesn't really despise him inasmuch as she despises herself for having romantic feelings for him. She despises the fact that he doesn't take the initiative and "man up" to make more romantic overtones towards her.
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Postby C.T.1290 » Sat Mar 03, 2018 5:13 pm

^Her having romantic feelings for him?

That's laughable.
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Postby Guy Nacks » Sat Mar 03, 2018 5:22 pm

View Original PostC.T.1290 wrote:^Her having romantic feelings for him?

That's laughable.


If you come away from the show thinking that Asuka is not attracted to Shinji, then you failed to read the subtext, or even the outright text of what's onscreen, such as:

-the "Wall of Jericho" scene, where she clearly wanted him to come over to her side of the room and sleep with her, or at least make some kind of an advance.

-She applauds him and is charmed by his cello playing, which culminates in the very next scene of her wanting to kiss him. Her saying that she's bored is merely a way of her obscuring her true feelings for him--again, like the "Wall of Jericho" scene, she is giving him an opportunity to make a move and take their relationship to a higher level.

The above two points are confirmed in 22' when she expresses frustration in her mindrape sequence that he did not take her up on the romantic advances that she was offering him. Shinji was most likely too clueless and/or scared to recognize them as romantic advances and thus didn't "hold her" or "help her".

There's also the scene in EOE where she says to him: "If I can't have you all to myself, then I don't want anything from you!"
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Postby Gob Hobblin » Sat Mar 03, 2018 5:23 pm

Her hatred of Shinji was because it seemed he didn't reciprocate her feelings: she wanted him to help her, and he never did.
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Postby C.T.1290 » Sun Mar 04, 2018 1:32 am

View Original PostGob Hobblin wrote:Her hatred of Shinji was because it seemed he didn't reciprocate her feelings: she wanted him to help her, and he never did.

Would things turn out differently if he did take the initiative? And things would have been better between them?
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Postby Mr. Tines » Sun Mar 04, 2018 3:47 am

View Original PostGuy Nacks wrote:The above two points are confirmed in 22' when
Anno got the ideas for Asuka he added into the DC retcon from a doujin he read. The original is, I believe intentionally, much more ambiguous.
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Postby Asuka'sBigBrother » Sun Mar 04, 2018 4:21 am

View Original PostC.T.1290 wrote:It is justified when some people, regardless of whom, has done nothing but made him miserable, so he chose to share his misery with others..

All people are responsible for some people's actions?

And why should his misery trump everyone else's interests?

Just stop CT.
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Postby Blockio » Sun Mar 04, 2018 8:27 am

View Original PostAsuka'sBigBrother wrote:
Just stop CT.

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Postby Guy Nacks » Sun Mar 04, 2018 6:00 pm

View Original PostMr. Tines wrote:Anno got the ideas for Asuka he added into the DC retcon from a doujin he read. The original is, I believe intentionally, much more ambiguous.


Holy shit. I must've missed this during the yearlong sabbatical I took from the forums.

Looking at this, it becomes apparent that Anno pretty much directly lifted certain cuts from this doujin and used them in 22'. I love the doujin imagery that has Asuka routinely coming up against AT-field barriers against other people, particularly that of the dividing wall between her and Shinji from episode 9.
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