The point isn't whether or not they're consistent with what's obviously canon, the point is whether or not they actually had any real impact on the show's development, and whether they had even been thought of yet when the show was made. Well, I myself take as 'given' that A...

I'm just saying, if Gainax didn't even decide on the identity of the giant creature in Nerv's basement until the last minute, it's not likely that much of anything in the CI was planned out for the actual show. While you might (sorta, kinda, just barely) have a point there r...

Reichu, by all means keep going with this. When I read the part about the FAR abandoning their home world because they were about to lose it (sun going nova, I suppose), it was a just a bit of a letdown because of the 'seen it, been there' factor (anyone remember TV's 'Th...

@Shin-seiki, I don't have access to the amount of corollary information most people on this forum seem to, almost it seems like you are taking that knowledge for granted. I only JUST read the wiki and learned about the FAR upon joining this forum. So, to me, Rei having Lilith's soul is a th...

Would that mean the (full soul) Rei/Lilith would then have had a contact experiment with Unit-00 in which she lost part of her soul, that part becoming the resident soul in Unit-00? Has this theory been brought up before? (probably has) AFAIK, there is no direct reference to Unit-00...

One of the reasons for this explanation is that it "takes advantage" of Eva-01 and Lilith apparently still being physically connected when the CE and perhaps the subsequent salvage took place. I recall that MDWigs was a proponent of the idea that the salvage operation, while failing to ge...

I don't believe the series states whether Unit 00 is Lilith or Adam based? Unit 00 has been destroyed by the time of the SEELE invasion of NERV. In my head I always thought of 00 and 01 as Lilith's models and the others as Adam's. When Gendo and Naoko show Fuyutsuki the Unit-00 prototyp...

[One. How did Lilith's soul end up in Unit-01? Is there a scene I missed, or an obscure quote I don't know of? Yui's Contact Experiment with Unit-01 took place while Unit-01 was still physically connected to Lilith: [url]http://www.evacommentary.org/episode-23/23_reiquarium.html (sc...

Kaworu: The First Ancestral Race? ???: That's what you call it... You don't remember? Knowing we would lose our home world, we embarked on a journey into the midst of space in search of other planets... Returning ourselves to the form of life’s origins... While bringing many peoples togethe...

It's very unlikely the destruction of the Rei clones could affect Rei III in any other way except that if she died, she couldn't come back. I disagree with that conclusion; I believe that I did establish in the OP that Rei's eventual disintegration was a predictable consequence that Rit...

The cross-plosions are, if nothing else, necessary from an animation perspective; how could you show 3 billion crosses popping up at once? Just figure on one giant cross for, say, every 10,000 people, and the relieved animators would say "OK, that's more reasonable!"

This theory though is rather nifty, and might even make sense with the quantum physics stuff earlier in 23... specifically, the linked fates of entwined particles. Indeed. I think maybe they were trying to tell us something about Rei's fundamental nature here, as well: http://i50.tinypic.com/25...

This topic is inspired by, and in response to, this very intriguing and insightful post by OMF: I'm just wondering about the nature of Rei's disintegration in EoE. Gendou claims it is because Rei's AT Field can no longer hold its shape; or at least this is the translation in both the Man...

The former subtitles seem to mean "affected" as in "assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned". Basically, same thing as "contrived" (forced, strained, artificial). How does "affected" --> "loose and indecent", anyway? I can't find it jus...

Maybe the idea was just to boost sales by making the Test-Type DVD a must-have for Eva completists; it worked in my case:

I'd had an impression that Asuka's negative assessment of Misato's character, as revealed here: Asuka (OFF): Man, I guess we will be in Japan by tomorrow. And Misato said she'd come pick me up by lunch. Oh, Misato's the person who was in Germany before you, Mr. Kaji. I do...

"All life was drawn indiscriminately into the world desired by the medium/avatar Shinji.  Led by the Reis -- the messengers of salvation -- hurt and suffering hearts dissolved into homogeneous LCL.  Even those who did not wish salvation were powerless to resist.  Aoba frantically rejected Rei,...

I appreciate the explanation, but there's no need to talk down to me. You're reading deprecation into his words that weren't there, IMO. He's just trying to be helpful. Er, what she said. Seriously. I was actually a little surprised when you said that you didn't buy it, so I was...

Well, I suppose. I think that once we determine what the purpose of the Reis who who appearing PRE-3I(Misato, Ritsuko) was, we can better figure out why Asuka didn't see one, since I'm not sold on the "We just didn't see it " argument. I thought we had spelled that out...

I think you're twisting things around quite a bit to fit the whole idea of karmic violence and non-violence. The fact that Keel, the single biggest cause of violence in the NGE universe (one of the people who instigated 2I, no less!) goes out the way he wanted to shows that karma has br...