It seems to me that although SEELE secretly directs NERV and the construction of the Evangelions, matters of politics and human nature are out of their hands to control. An Evangelion is a weapon unstoppable by any force besides another Evangelion, so it makes sense that no country would want any ot...

On a personal note, I wish we could avoid mucking about with all these newfangled pronouns and just settle on "it", which should serve our interests perfectly well in this matter. Just because Adam/Lilith are "mothers" doesn't mean they have to be "shes", and everyo...

Pardon my ignorance, but wasn't the destruction of the American base an accident in the original series? Something that wasn't in SEELE's plan, as mentioned by Gendo/Fuyutsuki? Or am I thinking of the destruction of Unit 03? In any case, does this change (if it is a change) have ...

I disliked the live-action sequence very much, and for reasons much the same as presented in this thread. I felt those scenes (especially the cosplay shot) broke the feeling of continuity just as much as if Anno had presented a black screen with "BTW NONE OF THIS IS HAPPENING". And...

If only we could take one single sworn statement from each staff member on all of the topics of interest, instead of comparing fragmented interviews and half-translations. If we could take ten percent of all the money spent annually on NGE figurines, costumes, cellphones, and eyewear, we could assem...

NERV has an extremely limited budget, but that's only because everything they do is so expensive.

Well, even before Adam is delivered, Tokyo-3 is still built on top of the Black Moon, so maybe there's some lingering godly apparatus there they might wish to use?

For all we hear and see about the Angels being Adam's children, I don't think it's right to regard them as being malformed. They're held up as an alien form of human (whatever that's supposed to mean) life, people in different shapes, and to attribute their bizarre forms ...

Lilith's job is over.

Adam is dormant because the [s]Lance[/s] Spear of Longinus impaled it after Lilith landed on Earth to prevent the two species from developing on the same planet.

Convenient plot device. The entry plug ejection is refused more times than not. Haven't you noticed that the nerv staff look shocked when it actually works? I like this explanation a lot on some level. It ties in with the idea that NERV is really only barely in control of these things and frank...

Without the soul of a Seed of Life within them, could they activate the requisite machinery?

@Koopa: What's given you the impression that ALL life derived from the FAR's efforts falls under the "humanity" banner? I don't recall anything suggesting this, and in fact it would render the "humanity" concept meaningless, since it would be completely indistinct fr...

The way I understood it was that "human" referred to every single life form that the FAR created. That's why Adam is the first human: it's the first artificial life form to touch down on Earth. Under this definition, humanity, Angels, Seeds of Life, what have you, all count as &quo...

Reichu#355036 wrote:Looks like my Sarcasm Translator froze up again, Koopa. Help me out here.

There's no sarcasm in this case. I really was that stupid.

Adam seemed to still be "stirring the pot" at that point. Since a bunch of souls fly out of the epicenter of Adam's explosion, I guess she brought the AATF (and whatever else she was doing) to critical right before she detonated? Oh, haha, silly me. For some reason I'd for...

Legendary#355006 wrote:Antarctica was made permanently uninhabitable. Humans can only survive there because of special equipment.

Don't we have Dr. Katsuragi walking about in only a parka, placing Misato in the life capsule completely exposed to the environment, though?

Hey, um, let me get this straight. Post-Second-Impact Antarctica is devoid of all life as we know it. This is due to the anti-AT Field and other preparations Adam was undertaking for the establishment of Angel life on Earth. Therefore, micro-organisms, which are absent in Antarctica (to what ext...

"Hell, is other people" — Sartre

Are you implying that the enforced proximity to other souls in Third Impact would be hellish, or that the absence of individual egos would banish the Hedgehog's Dilemma forever?

Perhaps the Angels are homing in on the Black Moon as well as the Seeds?

NemZ wrote:I took that as meaning not that he physically created the pluguit but that his presence in the plug was giving it shape, maybe even moving it slightly from time to time like a ouija board.

I don't think "substantiate" means "move around in a creepy manner".