I'll just say that we had this same discussion recently in this thread.

I don't think the preview was a deliberate fakeout at all but I cant think of how to explain why without massive spoilers.

Blockio wrote:

This was the plan all along. If one were to go back and rewatch You Are (Not) Alone and You can (Not) Advance with knowledge of the shocks in You Can (Not) Redo, one would uncover many exciting depictions that are sure to stir the imagination

Doesn't get a whole lot more explicit than that that Q was, in fact, planned to be this way from the start. They outright tell you that the foreshadowing for it is in place. And guess what, it is. There's ancient threads on here that did predict some of the major plot elements of Q long before the movie dropped.

I'd like to see these threads. Anyway, can't get more obvious than having Urashima mentioned as foreshadowing.

Heaven Piercing Man wrote:I'd like to see these threads. Anyway, can't get more obvious than having Urashima mentioned as foreshadowing.

It's not just Urashima, there's another, more subtle foreshadowing in the song that plays when EVA-01 destroys EVA-03 with Asuka inside (kudos to Kendrix who discovered it): said song is traditionally sung during school graduations, and neither Shinji, Asuka or Rei will ever go back to school after that scene, and there's also the line in the song that says "let's be friend even thought we won't see each other again for a long time" that foreshadows how Shinji and Asuka won't meet again for 14 years (from the latter's perspective, as for Shinji it was like one day and half ago!)

The Aquarium scene is also something that hits really different.


It seems like they had a rough outline (that was supposedly explained to Ishida) & fleshed out the details as they went along.

As wildly as 2.0 changed, it always started with Mari vs Tunniel, and ended with "Eva 01 goes out of control"

Most of the things in the Preview actually happened. If you assume that Q and TuaT were still planned as a double feature then, it actually didn't change that much.

Kendrix wrote:The Aquarium scene is also something that hits really different.


It seems like they had a rough outline (that was supposedly explained to Ishida) & fleshed out the details as they went along.

As wildly as 2.0 changed, it always started with Mari vs Tunniel, and ended with "Eva 01 goes out of control"

Most of the things in the Preview actually happened. If you assume that Q and TuaT were still planned as a double feature then, it actually didn't change that much.

You know, I wonder if the changes to the ending of 2.0 explain WHY it seemingly contradicts the beginning of 3.0, with Shinji explicitly triggering 3i and destroying the world instead of it being stopped halfway. If that were the case, 3.0/Shin very well could’ve been the originally planned ending even with all the changes made to 2.0.

Archer wrote:You know, I wonder if the changes to the ending of 2.0 explain WHY it seemingly contradicts the beginning of 3.0, with Shinji explicitly triggering 3i and destroying the world instead of it being stopped halfway. If that were the case, 3.0/Shin very well could’ve been the originally planned ending even with all the changes made to 2.0.

The basic explanation isn't hard at all and I've been saying it since 2012, years before I actually watched a rebuild movie- they had to take the Cassius out of Yui to stop the Twelfth Angel, and when they did this Yui went back to Impacting.
That said, I think it's possible that Ha was originally supposed to end with the full Third Impact, and that this was changed when Anno decided Third Impact needed three films worth of complex lore for him to not make films about.

Really looking forward to this!! Do we have a release date on the 3.0 CRC yet?

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No, no release date has been announced recently.

Kendrix wrote:As wildly as 2.0 changed, it always started with Mari vs Tunniel, and ended with "Eva 01 goes out of control"

Yep, this is what I've been saying. That phrasing, "Eva 01 goes out of control" indicates to me that N3I was always part of the plan.

Archer wrote:You know, I wonder if the changes to the ending of 2.0 explain WHY it seemingly contradicts the beginning of 3.0, with Shinji explicitly triggering 3i and destroying the world instead of it being stopped halfway. If that were the case, 3.0/Shin very well could’ve been the originally planned ending even with all the changes made to 2.0.

There's no contradiction, because in Q it's said that it's Third Impact that destroyed the world, while what Shinji did at the end of 2.0 was Near Third Impact, 2.0's Next Time Preview, WILLE and Kaworu made the distinction between N3I and 3I, the thing is that we don't know what involvement Shinji had with 3I, and he too didn't thought about it, because Kaworu worded things in such a way that made him believe that he was the direct cause of it, and because he later failed to connect the dot of the discrepancies between what Kaworu told him and what he saw in Lilith's Chamber.

ElMariachi wrote:There's no contradiction, because in Q it's said that it's Third Impact that destroyed the world, while what Shinji did at the end of 2.0 was Near Third Impact, 2.0's Next Time Preview, WILLE and Kaworu made the distinction between N3I and 3I, the thing is that we don't know what involvement Shinji had with 3I, and he too didn't thought about it, because Kaworu worded things in such a way that made him believe that he was the direct cause of it, and because he later failed to connect the dot of the discrepancies between what Kaworu told him and what he saw in Lilith's Chamber.

In Q, it is never said that the Third Impact destroyed the world.


These are Kaworu's words when he explain the situation:

Ikari Shinji-kun, once Awakened, Eva-01 opened the Door of Guf and became the trigger for Third Impact.
Lilin call it Near Third Impact. It was all initiated by you.


I hope the 3.0 CRC will explain and clarify what happened to the World.

Konja7 wrote:
In Q, it is never said that the Third Impact destroyed the world.


These are Kaworu's words when he explain the situation:

Ikari Shinji-kun, once Awakened, Eva-01 opened the Door of Guf and became the trigger for Third Impact.
Lilin call it Near Third Impact. It was all initiated by you.


I hope the 3.0 CRC will explain and clarify what happened to the World.

Surely we don’t have to wait for the CRC’s for that, I refuse to believe that 3.0+1.0 doesn’t address it to at least SOME degree even if it’s only vague hints.

This looks neat-o!

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— twitter-user (@username) date

Google Translate:
"Evangelion New Theatrical Version: Q Complete Works Visual Story Version" to be released in late June 2021
"Film story" with all the cuts and lines of the main story
"Music Cue Sheet"
Follow announcements and Gaya lines "Additional script"
A4 size / text 274P planned / full color

"additional script", huh?

Oh so they are first releasing the stripped down version without the storyboards and interviews

EDIT: in the official announcement they say it's 3.333, so hopefully they will release it before the book is out.

Finally! June 2021. It will be based on Q:3.333 version (what was already expected), but I would like to know when we will have a blu-ray

Just to clarify, the "additional script" has the extras' lines (like background chatters) and official announcements. The machine translation was unable to translate the word "gaya" (ガヤ) properly.

Kendrix wrote:"additional script", huh?

They talking about adding the background chatter into the script in this visual storybook.

Joseki wrote:Oh so they are first releasing the stripped down version without the storyboards and interviews

EDIT: in the official announcement they say it's 3.333, so hopefully they will release it before the book is out.

That's right, from their official announcement, it will just be the images and art from Q. I'm really looking forward to the next volume with the interviews (release date TBA)!

I think they will put the interviews in the EVA-EXTRA app under the subscription tier, they have yet to released the 1.0 and 2.0 interviews in a physical format.

Joseki wrote:I think they will put the interviews in the EVA-EXTRA app under the subscription tier, they have yet to released the 1.0 and 2.0 interviews in a physical format.

Weren't the interviews in the physical bigger copies of the CRC? The paperback didn't have them because they were reprints IIRC.