I would also like to point out that the "eye theme" can also be potentially expanded to Asuka and her eye patch... If we look at the gradual obscuring/revealing of characters' eyes in subsequent scenes/shots, there seems to be the suggestion of a progression of "obscuredness": -...

the child he always accused Shinji of being. What a great fucking character. Note that he set up Shinji to grow up to be just like him, by leaving him in the care of this faceless teacher. The music player hints at this; it was Gendo's coping device for isolating himself from other people, and Shin...

The eyes are the windows to the soul - except when your glowing cross-shaped soul is plainly visible through a big hole in the middle of your face. Throughout the Rebuild of Evangelion, Gendo has been distant to others, including to the point of distancing himself from his own humanity. In this pos...

In 3.0, we see various remnants of Third Impact happening in between movies. One of these is Gendo standing in the ravaged NERV control room looking at a (very dead) Giant Naked Rei head with empty eye sockets. It is not a stretch to imagine that this would match the headless corpse of Lilith that U...

It is notable how the wording "becoming the trigger" is mentioned on both occasions. Weirdly enough, for 3I it is Eva-01 itself, whereas for pre-4I, it is Kaworu instead (the pilot). Near-Third Impact appears to trigger the moment Shinji starts absorbing Rei out of the 10th Angel's ("...

The scene with Mari and Fuyutsuki teases some backstory between them, especially with Mari seemingly knowing things about Fuyutsuki's motives, and Fuyutsuki referring to Mari by using a name she admitted she has not been called in a very long time. Them being prevously acquainted is further suggeste...

Axx°N N.#936394 wrote:the scriptwriter's errand girl.

I prefer to review the work in terms of its themes and internal merits, and not in opinionated terms of how it was made.

And I'm not a particular fan of derailing any discussion on Rebuild of Evangelion into yet another "it's terrible" argument.

I find the interpretation of Mari as a messenger/courier very compelling. I can see it in a lot of her actions toward both Shinji and Asuka: ⋅ As you mentioned yourself, Mari delivers the Spear of Gaius to Shinji. ⋅ Aditionally, Mari ferries Shinji himself across the gates of Guf...

So what implications can we draw from "Ayanami is Ayanami"? Is this just Shinji's way of saying that the identity of any instance of the Rei continuum of characters is hopelessly bound up with the label Ayanami in his own mind? In an earlier post you characterize this as a last-minute ref...

Regarding Rei holding the Tsubame doll, there is a possible explanation that deserves mention. Here goes: Gendo explains that the Anti-Universe shapes itself to the human senses using a person's own memories and frame of reference. Which would apply to Rei's attire - especially because she has no ac...

Now I'm confused! What's the Kaji Jr stuff? I don't remember how Kaji Jr relates to Rei Q's naming. I believe the point being made is that Kaji and Misato's son is not only his father's spitting image, but has also been named "Ryouji Kaji" - identifical to his father. Yet he is also his o...

Hello! I am back. I was quite active here many years ago, but I left upon the release of Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo, due to not being able to view the movie for months, and not wanting to be spoiled by any discussion of it. Now I have finished watching 3.0+1.0, and I am ready to engage in di...

Disclaimer: I have not read this full thread, so I hope it has not been brought up yet. I do not have any screenshots to compare, but there is a subtle bookending shot to 3.0+1.0: At the start There are many shots of Shinji despondently walking after Asuka and Rei before they arrive in Village 3. No...

Maybe Original Shikinami and Asuka merged together into a single being, so there was only a single Asuka from that moment forward?

In that sense, the Shikinami clones could have achieved their own form of Instrumentality, with the 9th Angel as the catalyst.

(Rei doesn’t need to have the Curse of Eva in order to maintain age appearance because she’s a clone, and even if Rei Q matured naturally by growing up during the 14-year gap, she’d still be about 14 years old.) I think Rei being swallowed by the 10th Angel and encapsulated into its core, a...

I made some minor edits to my previous post, adding some extra clarification on points 4 and 5.

There are several comments to make about the relevance of the music player. The obvious starting point would be its significance in the original NGE series. 1. In NGE, the music player represents Shinji's withdrawing within himself. The tracks loop, and he keeps listening to the entire thing ove...

What is interesting in this comparison, is that the number 1 / Unit-01 is a special case both in the Fibonacci sequence and in Evangelion. In the Fibonacci sequence, the number 1 occurs twice. In Rebuild of Evangelion, Unit-01 is piloted not just by the human pilot Shinji: - In Rebuild 1.0, during t...

Chuckman raises a good point though : the people in the WILLE fleet can't be the only human left, there must be settlements left around the world, big ones even to supply the Wunder fleet with all their part for the AAA Wunder, anti-AT field rail-gun ammo, equipment for the Evas... and I'm ...

Even if she couldn't kill Shinji, she still put a bomb collar on him an explicitly prohibited him to pilot an Eva ever again because he might still be an Impact Trigger (Mark.09 coming for Shinji was the confirmation), so do you think that she would take the risk of having Asuka pilotin...