It's quite interesting that she's almost becoming like her enemy, she shows a typical case of "the end justifies the means" with her little sadistic toy. I wouldn't surprise if there's a scene either in 3.33 or a flashback in Final, where Ritsuko convinces Misato it's ...

Except for Misato they're more acquaintances than anything else, unless Anno will pull another DC and shows us the depth of Asuka's care for Shinji or some shit like that, Shinji lost all the people he cared for the most, Rei and Kaworu, even if Wille&co. forgive him I wonder if he can ...

I agree that Shinji dying just doesn't make any sense to the story Anno's telling. In Eva, redemption never equals death. In Eva, redemption equals communication. But that is magical. There's no logic in Kaworu dying making people view Shinji better. Even if they don't instantly like...

I'm not going that far... he's certainly not an amoral object. I would say rather that his culpability limited and ultimately it's actually for the better that he acted in this way. It's not the optimal solution, but it's still the best they could hope for given things as they w...

I have something of a theory on the cores that kind of builds on the theory that Rei I was in Unit-00 in NGE. Of course, back then, we were dealing with souls, and parts of souls, but it seems like this time, the souls themselves aren't necessary for piloting an Eva (otherwise, as pointed ou...

Oh I completely understand that. Anno clearly is trying to tell us he thinks Shinji's responsible, and he's trying to tell us this is how we should view it. But in the end that just comes down to him preaching his message to us. I mean, that's fine, there's nothing wrong with using ...

There were definitely all of those things in various places in the 2.0 discussion threads. I know Lucretius is feeling pretty vindicated in his opinion of 2.0!Shinji, for one -- I am, too, but the real difference is that when 2.0 came out, we thought Shinji coming across as a self-centered prick in...

I think it's interesting that I don't recall anyone being quite so intensely critical of Shinji's actions at the end of 2.0 before Q came out. There were definitely criticisms and the interpretations that it was Anno's subverting typical GAR shounen protagonists, but I don't reme...

I don't think Shinji is evil. I don't think we're supposed to sympathize with him either. He does hilariously stupid shit over and over again. We're supposed to hope that he, the kid with a robot that could end the world or maybe, just maybe rebuild it, will actually get enough cont...

Considering how hyper-meta-aware Rebuild has been of NGE, I think Asuka's fate will definitely be linked to her fate in EoE somehow (and I don't mean in a sequel-y way). I think if Asuka dies, Anno will definitely want to somehow allude to her death in EoE, but he'll also want to...

Has Unit-01 actually been confirmed as an Adam? Because that was only speculation last I knew. If it's still made from Lilith, it keeps its unique nature amongst the Evangelions. This is getting into Impact mechanics a bit, but since it pertains to more to what units are what, I'll post it ...

No. 4.

Don't even need to think about it.

Please take all of this this goddamn responsibility away and make me a carefree little girl doing cute things for the rest of my life. Easy choice.

Shinji isn't evil. He's just a fuck up. If Shinji were evil, but competant there'd be a lot less hate for him. It's kind of hilarious how true this is. It's also interesting how ridiculously split the fanbase is on their interpration of Shinji's actions. He's either irre...

Alright, I'll throw out some (mostly) serious Evangelion:|| predictions: Confident-will-happen tier: - No redo or reset, and Shinji must learn to accept change, loss, and the consequences of his mistakes and move forward; there will be no romantic end - The place he finds hope will not b...

Yeah... I really can't do that with my internet connection. I don't know how bad your internet is, but the audiorip is only <40MB. That's downloadable even on 56k dial-up, even if it'll take a while. I do hope though that whatever epipheny Shinji has that makes him grow as a person,...

ScottAsher#579597 wrote:I thought it was implied the reset button is there, though? Shinji just didn't do it right.

Possibly, but even if they had the right spears, it wouldn't make any thematic sense after Q, and Anno is a better storyteller than that.

Something that just occurred to me: if we'd had a train sequence in Q, which Rei would have been in it?

NemZ#579538 wrote:Well like you said, there is that line about souls not being in the right place...

Madoka★Magica Movie 3 and Evangelion: Final confirmed for actually same film?

..... On the other hand, wouldn't it be more likely that piloting Eva or LCL exposure or whatever it is that causes the Curse of Eva would cease to have effect when one isn't piloting anymore, isn't getting in anymore? After all we've been given no indication otherwise, so when tryi...

I'd have to agree that I don't see "redemption equals death" fitting with Anno's vision, which has so far always been that you must keep living, even if living is painful, because as long as you keep living, there is hope. In Q, Shinji is trying to refuse reality once more, and...