A whole whopping 4 years later, here's the pre-release drafts of the first two chapters of Evangelion - Project Dioscuri for review, comment, or derisive mockery as the reader finds appropriate. Chapter 3 is mostly finished, hopefully it won't be as long coming. Ch 1-3 cover Ep 5-6 of the original T...

The external battery packs are large and are attached to the part of the Evangelion that normally interfaces with the launch platform, so maybe it's not physically possible to use the E-M launch system when the battery packs are installed.

Jet Alone seems to have been a self-funded private venture by the "Japan Consortium of Heavy and Chemical Industries", so SEELE probably decided it would be more effective to let them publicly crash and burn in a spectacular fashion than to try to kill the project through background politi...

The script for Ep 24 implies that SEELE is expecting NERV to destroy Kaworu/Tabris (“I will be praying that Unit 01 will accomplish its task”), but slipping him into NERV undercover is insane given what's at stake. In the end NERV more or less fails at that task; if Kaworu had actually wanted to mer...

A couple of questions about EoE. Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I haven't seen these questions answered anywhere. The spear is what lets you control the Impact beyond just killing everyone, right? So what did Seele think they'd be able to do without it? And they specifically say that ...

119 Not a California-class nuclear cruiser, since she's got the funnels for a conventional power plant. The superstructure aft of the bridge has the Albany-class cruiser's distinctive dual funnel+mast design, but the bow could be off of an early Spruance-class destroyer with the Mk-112 ASROC launch...

100% walk-back on this entire thread, what we're looking at is a Tachikaze-class guided missile destroyer of the JMSDF. Serves me right for railroading myself down the USN ship path, without even considering the possibility of it being a JMSDF vessel. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5...

Denis Villeneuve would definitely concur with you on that point, look at how Ryan Gosling's portrayal of Agent K in BR2049 changes after he finds out that all his childhood memories are just illegal copies of somebody else's. Perhaps Gendo knowing that popping another Rei out of the LCL fishbowl doe...

119 Not a California-class nuclear cruiser, since she's got the funnels for a conventional power plant. The superstructure aft of the bridge has the Albany-class cruiser's distinctive dual funnel+mast design, but the bow could be off of an early Spruance-class destroyer with the Mk-112 ASROC launch...

I had assumed that they were able to reactivate despite their catastrophic damage because they used a Dummy Plug instead of an actual living pilot. The sympathetic feedback from the Evangelion's injuries would leave a living pilot either unconscious or dead. The Dummy Plug can't feel pain, so it wou...

Once you start looking for the holes, you can't ever stop :tongue: "Asuka Strikes" is absolutely riddled with them, and a quick glance at a map of the Hakone region makes it obvious that the sniper's perch from "Showdown in Tokyo-3" is nowhere near where they say it is in the epi...

One hypothesis that ran through my mind is that Rei III's memories have been uploaded to her from the data captured by the mechanism(s) in the Dummy Plug Plant. She seems vague and distant afterwards because she doesn't actually have any memories of her own; to her the uploaded memories are like sce...

Splitting up and recombining souls is definitely possible, Kyoko Zeppelin's ended up split between Eva-02 and her original body after her Contact Experiment. She was still fairly high functioning afterwards (retained awareness, motor functions, and language skills), although the process seems to hav...

The MP Evas definitely have souls within them, because in EoE Aoba specifically states that their AT fields are resonating with Eva-01's AT field. I think that the general consensus is that the dummy plugs don't have souls, because they're just a pre-recorded simulation of an actual person's mind th...

My $0.02 is that the Ikari family dynamics would be dysfunctional, with Gendo being emotionally detached from his son, and resentful of him for stealing Yui's love from him. Gendo's resentment of Shinji for "stealing Yui's love from him" is a manga-specific subplot like Kendrix noted. If ...

If you look at the events leading up to episode 1, there seems to be some timeline inconsistencies: ⋅ Rei has very recently been seriously injured (implicitly, during EVA-00's activation test). She's still in her plug suit, is in severe pain, and when she topples off the gurney some of her...

I'd posted my own somewhat leaky theory in this thread.

My $0.02 is that the Ikari family dynamics would be dysfunctional, with Gendo being emotionally detached from his son, and resentful of him for stealing Yui's love from him. In Ep 15 his reply to Shinji's accusation that he destroyed every picture of Yui was just to calmly state "I keep everyth...

Sure, if you're counting the atmosphere. My point is that the oxygen and hydrogen would be stuck in the atmosphere, since their natural atomic state at the temperatures found anywhere on Earth outside of very specific lab equipment is gaseous. How reactive are the two elements when mixed together a...

If you look at the size of the splash GNR's body makes, relative to the size of the planet given it's curvature in the shot, there isn't enough water in all the oceans of the Earth to produce waves that big. Her torso is well over a hundred kilometres thick in that shot, and the Pacific Ocean is onl...