My feeling is that Gendo's obsession with and relentless pursuit of reuniting with Yui ultimately constitutes our understanding of their relationship. We don't even need a shot of the two side by side in #21', or being happily married at all (EoTV aside), because Gendo's abs...

That's.. not really an alternate theory, and it has already been discussed, FFF4e. For what it's worth I think it's spot on: the curse is inflicted upon those who are infected by the Eva/Angel (really, they're more or less synonymous). For Asuka this is the Eva-03 activation....

I don't like it all that much because if it didn't have the Evangelion title, everyone would be panning it as nonsensical bullshit that is an incoherent, abrupt departure from the narrative thus far. But because it's Evangelion, it's absolutely brilliant - and inexplicable, contradic...

My thoughts: Think about where the city is. As far as I know it's on the "roof" of the invierted pyramid, which used to be the GeoFront surface. The land surrounding the GeoFront pyramid has been excavated nearly all the way down to Central Dogma (Lilith's chamber). Imagine...

So there you have it. There is no sequel thing. Evangelion is a story that repeats but that doesn't mean that each time will be the same. Only important things like the pilots, human instrumentality project, SEELE's plan, Gendo's plan and Kaworu's infuence on Shinji will always be t...

ElMariachi#649171 wrote:Here is a clearer shot of the "Location something" function(the second word seems to start by "B") :

"Location Beacon:"

Also after Random Encryption Key the next two words are Camouflage Code.

Well Shinji wasn't to know, but if he hadn't shown up that Lance of Cassius might have ended up impaling Zeruel instead.

Pure conjecture, mind you. There's no real way to explain why Mark.06 might be launched with the spear, other than to stop what was otherwise unstoppable.

I agree, and i've speculated on this elsewhere (but I can't find the post). I think it might be in the black moon thread. Speculation there (by others) suggests that the Black Moon screw-like thing unearthed at the end of 3.33 bears some resemblance to an entry plug - for the...

Conjecture based on fanwankery/rumor that grew out of early screening reports. Turned out to have no supporting evidence, but still kind of a cool bit of fanwankery.

Shinji doesn't have to earn everyone's forgiveness. Frankly, that's impossible. All he needs to earn is the forgiveness of himself and the people who were closest to him. In Wille, he really only needs Misato and Asuka's forgiveness, and Mari will probably have no problem forgiving ...

Kendrix#647072 wrote:Do you forget that she pretty much spontaneously stripped?

Probably; it's been a while! I'll readily admit i'm colored by bias as well, and have my own idea of who Asuka should be which may or may not gloss over inconvenient facts.

Taking into account Misato kissing Shinji in EoE, How would you think Asuka would have reacted if Kaji actually responded to her advances? :devil: Happily, to a point - the acknowledgement and satisfaction from being wanted as an adult. But once things looked like they were going to go beyond feeli...

And I still say that Asuka won't let Shinji fake his death : he's an Impact Trigger, and thus still a threat because neo-NERV could still have some interests in him. She can't let him unsupervised. If only there was someone peacefully living out their lives somewhere that could be trust...

Shinji has this habit of trying to recognize the ceiling he sees when he wakes up. That's not really something normal people do after a night's sleep. I suspect he's woken up with no recollection of when he fell unconscious/asleep many times - far more than shown in Rebuild - and that...

A simpler question: just how dead IS the world? Kaworu mentions mass extinctions, but that's a LOT of helicopters reinforcing the WILLE fleet, and that's a lot of ships manned by a lot of crew, too.

Other parties involved in what? They blame Shinji for N3I, Unit 01 becoming awake in outer space, and nothing else. A 14-year flashback wouldn't infer the involvement of other parties in anything other than the beheading of Lilith and a mess of tanks in NERV, which no one blames Shinji for in 3...

The reason an explanation of some things is needed is because the purported facts don't gel with reactions. Example. Near Third Impact happened but the end of 2.22 showed it stopped by the Lance of Cassius long before stuff like the Earth grin and the Moon grid happens. Other parties must have b...

I'm fairly convinced that whatever happened over the 14 years, the vast majority of that timespan is actually not worth seeing. There's a small number of major events that punctuate a big sea of relative boredom (and the number more or less depends on where you think 2.22 actually ended:...

The big question I would like Anno to respond to is if the rumor that 2.0 was initially supposed to follow what we saw in the 2.0 trailer but he changed his mind midway and scrapped everything in favor of the time skip is true. Like others say I don't think we'll get a conclusive answer. Bu...

Hmm. The Yui in Eva-13 makes a lot of sense. The part that doesn't make sense is someone going up to a speared Eva mid-ascension and taking out the core. But who knows, maybe someone decided to do it. (One could even fanwank N3I resuming when the core ie control system is removed from the Ev...