I'm still going with the Gendo/Yui route. The dude's been jonesing for his Yui fix for 14 years, if anyone is getting a goodbye kiss it'd be him.

^ Shinji getting manipulated by his father again is not something that i think should happened in their final confrontation.

@ElMariachi I'm not entirely disagreeing with you, but Shinji did fuck up big time and that's not something that's going to be just handwaved away. If the choker was his punishment for his involvement with N3I then he's not getting away scot-free for N4I. However, that's not to say that just because...

^ Hmm dunno how to feel about 3 storylines at the same time (WIllie, Shinji and Gendo) i mean it can work but it could also fail. Then there's Misato line right before Shinji left in 3.0, and i'm paraphrasing, that he was under their protection. Which has interesting implications that the Wunder may...

Looks like things got moved around, so just gonna copy&paste what i said here before things got split. Anyway back on topic. After giving it some thought i just don't see how Misato could have him perform any "menial" task aboard the Wunder. If the crew already had their misgivings the...

Snip As i said, he saw the 10th swallow Unit-0 from the knees up, chew it up, and spit out the head. In what reality does that give Shinji any indication that Rei was salvageable in any capacity? He straight up refused to accept the reality of the situation, Rei was dead and stopping the angel was ...

I'm confused, is this like an alternate timeline or something? It has a way more post apocalyptic feel than any of the movies had, so i'm not sure how connected it's suppose to be , if at all, to the movie universe. Still, there's enough there worth checking it out.

@SSA Yeah pretty much, his breakdown later on is more about his failure to save Rei and what it cost him personally in terms of his closest relationships than Rei not actually being there. His agreement to Kaworus plan was to get back into Misatos good graces rather than doing it for them. Doesn't m...

I think people are underestimating just a how badly the 9th angel incident fucked with Shinjis mind. He gave up on the life he had started to form and had 0 plan for the future. So while i do not see his actions to save Rei as narcissistic, they were definitely selfish. I see it as being desperate f...

^ It's still Shinjis story, things resolving without his involvement as a pilot would be anticlimactic. As good as Asuka is, she would've fried in the atmosphere if Unit-1 hadn't destroyed the drone.

Here's the way i think things went, pure speculation and not in order. ⋅ After the failure of 3rd impact Seele decided to modify the last remaining adam to make it have a dual pilot capability since Lillith somehow sealed itself off. ⋅ At some point Willie either stole or found t...

^ Thing is that a pseudo-awakened Unit1 had already rekt the 10th, it was only Shinjis desperation for a W that started an impact by forcefully trying to get Rei back. If he had stopped and simply destroyed the core, there would be a pseudo-awakened eva but no impact.

The first preview had Goji, Rodan, JetJaguar, Anguirus, and maybe Titanosaur and some other water Kaiju. So plenty of monsters, though that doesn't say anything about actual screen time. Still i have hopes it'll better than w/e the Godzilla anime trilogy was.

Kaworu not lying is a mere technicality. At best he mislead Shinji in order to make him happy. In actuality he gaslit him with cherry picked information and insinuations. He straight up told him he was the catalyst of what he saw, is that technically true in round about way? Yes, but that's a farm c...

Not the biggest fan of this Rodan design, reminds me a lot of fan designs of monsterverse Rodan. Which were basically a giant pterosaur. However with all that being said.

• Baby Rodan
• Steampunky JetJaguar

Yes to all of that!

The 360 degree vision the new entry plugs have. Like how in the hell is that suppose to work? Humans are visual creatures so when we interact with things we also need to know the position of our bodies relative to w/e the object being interacted with. It'd be like trying to walk around with your eye...

And besides all that, it would also be a complete contradiction of the rules of storytelling. If you give a character a crushing revelation, one that weighs down on their psyche and motivates their actions, you can't just have that revelation revealed to be false without it feeling like a cop-out. ...

Sadly it seems that Asuka is bound to Shinji. 3.0 was the perfect opportunity to reintroduce her with her own arc, but it was not meant to be. So w/e her backstory and role is in final, i get the feeling it will involve Shinji in some way.

Well i'm sold! This is something i'm willing to go to theaters to see. Luckily my local cinemas remain open, albeit with vastly reduced showtimes (1 or showtimes per movie during the middle of the day) so fingers crossed they remain open till the movie drops. Also i must say this trailer was done mu...

The first one is the one that truly threatened the plan, as the others Gendo could've overruled Misato and taken certain steps to guarantee that outcome. Shinjis banishment post 9th was Gendo pulling a Shinji, he let his emotions make a rash and impulsive decision that could've easily cost him every...