On one hand it'd be nice for everyone to get some independency from Shinji. On the other hand, if you're too far removed from Shinji then you pretty much get no screentime.

^ The dynamic trio's plan of using Rei & Shinji to awaken Unit-01 makes no sense to me. -Gendo was willing to let Shinji walk away after the 9th Angel incident. -Gendo let Misato pick the pilot for Unit-03. If Rei was chosen she could have died. -Gendo said to Fuyu that he'll have Rei and Shinji...

I don't think 2I destroyed Anarctica and knocked the earth off-axis in the rebuild.

Could be! My justification for my thinking is that is when Mari landed on Shinji on the school rooftop, she knew him by smell. But when she was in Unit-02, she said a more vague statement like "This Eva smells like someone else."

I'm leaning more towards Mari and Shinji being childhood friends (very likely, if not confirmed already!) in Japan while Asuka grew up alone in Europe.

Seems likely enough. My only issue is that the lady who's supposedly Mari and Asuka's mom looks everything like Mari and nothing like Asuka.

Oh boy an NTE ship thread.

Honestly I wish I didn't have lingering sentiments from Soryu x Shinji. It's making me want a rebuild version of AsuShin even though it doesn't make any sense at this point.

You have seen the films right? They are very much drama films. I mean, we’re not disputing that. We’re just saying that the whole “pilots are Adams” theory coming true would turn it into pure sci-fi by removing the everyman nature of the protagonists. That’s what we don’t want. Pilots = Adams isn't...

@zuruchan I mean I guess. I do appreciate the different approach, it's more appropriate for a movie format. @haugh We still have a movie left for Asuka and Mari so I'll hold off final judgement. I feel like the equivalent of episode 22 is coming for Asuka. Anno said he "accidentally" made ...

So no, NTE is not a psychological drama (not even an inch of introspection), at least that should be clear. NTE has gone the opposite route of instead opting for "show-don't-tell". There are different ways of approaching psychological drama than the Leliel/Arazel/Armisael way that the ser...

I do wish these movies would spend an extra 10 mins or so to explore non-Shinji characters more in-depth.

Little Red Riding Hood.

Why does it need that...

Prosit.

Holy shit, finally.

Winner gets Glor's love.

I'm 100% down for SwordSuka.

Oh god not the loop talk again. I think people vastly overstate how much Shinji is actually not liked in Q by the Wille crew just because the scene is framed by Shinji's point of view, I would be surprised if they don't threat Shinji relatively well in Shin. Well, I'd say that the whole "WILLE ...

Joseki#907549 wrote:I think people vastly overstate how much Shinji is actually not liked in Q by the Wille crew just because the scene is framed by Shinji's point of view, I would be surprised if they don't threat Shinji relatively well in Shin.

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