^ Wait, you mean that Asuka has an interdimensional portal in place of her eye!? :cringe: No offense, but that look completely far fetched : it was shown thorough the Rebuils that opening a Door of Guf requires an immense power, one that only a Seed of Life or an awakened Evangelion can generate, h...

So, did Pen Pen really die then inbetween the two films? Maybe he just went into hiding? Or did he, like maybe fuse with he Wunder? I don't know.... god, I hope Final explains this stuff. If you squeeze your eyes just right, doesn't Wunder appear just a little bit similar to a penguin in ho...

Interesting, this could have several implications. I'll list a few speculative options off the top of my head. 1. Asuka has been beyond the Doors of Guf during the 9th Angel incident, and it has left its mark on her. Perhaps a part of her was even left behind (thus incorporating an element o...

While we're comparing Rei hairstyles, I would like to point out that it is interesting to see that Rei's hairstyle in Rebuild 1.0 holds a kind of middle ground between 2.0 and 3.0: http://wiki.evageeks.org/images/5/5e/Rei_Smile_1.11.png Perhaps the degree to which Rei's hair covers her f...

I was thinking, maybe the eventual implants was to give to Gendo a direct interface with all of neo-NERV installations, he seems to still spend most of his days in his old office, which is completely destroyed and doesn't seem to have a terminal in the desk, so he must receive information and t...

If Ritsuko is going to (try to) shoot anyone in FINAL, it will be Misato. Let's no go that far : sure she urged Misato to activate the Choker, but when she couldn't do it, Ritsuko didn't showed anger, but a sympathetic look, she perfectly understands what Misato was going throug...

Meh, just thought she deserved a wee bit revenge. Throughout Rebuild, Ritsuko only has meaningful interactions with Misato. Other characters just speak at her, rather than with her. As such, she appears to represent little more than the cold, rational, impersonal and ruthless mirror image of Misato...

ChaddyManPrime#712572 wrote:If they were indeed together in this Universe Ritsuko should shoot him like he did to her in the last Universe.

No reason to assume they ever were.

You give Gendo too little credit. In NGE/EoE, he was shown to have an overriding agenda at the root of his master plan: unconditional love for Yui. And he sacrificed far too much for it (including arguably her love for him). In Rebuild 2.0, he showed a few glimpses of a softer side behind hi...

@tzigi: Then I think we are in agreement. Rebuild 2.0 and Rebuild 3.0 walk on opposite sides of a very fine line. Rebuild 2.0 balances between parallelling/compressing the events in NGE episodes 7-18, 20 and 23 on the one hand, and deviating from the outcome of the main plotlines. The result is a st...

My guess is a very complicated and specific one. The long version something like this: - Gendo's master plan is finally realized. He has used the Key of Nebuchadnezzar and can now control the fate of humanity. - He chooses to be reunited with Yui. Yui appears and rejects him for what he has done...

Being introduced to Lilith and Kaworu in the first third of the series is "minor"? Re: Lilith Shinji being shown Lilith by Misato was a more forceful (and earlier) variant of Shinji learning that all of the Geofront will self-destruct if an Angel ever reaches Terminal Dogma. It se...

@tzigi: What we have been offered in Rebuild 3.0 does indeed contain several story elements that are quite similar to ones already present in NGE, as you have pointed out. However, the overall story that these elements tell (along with all the new story elements) is so different from the sto...

IF Shinji had been retrieved after a mere month, instead of 14 years, THEN all we would have seen in Rebuild 3.0 would just be another variation of NGE episodes 21-24 (and possibly the first part of EoE). In other words, exactly what Rebuild 2.0 was for NGE episodes 7-20. --- In case you ha...

^ But then how would they also copy Asuka's angelic infection in the eye? I'll have a go at this (even though I don't buy the theory): Because the original Asuka was cloned only after she got contaminated in the eye, and all successive clones are "3D-printed" copies wi...

Referring back to TMBounty_Hunter's post on page 1 (post #5 in the thread), I posted a reply with my own interpretation in a different thread.

Please find the link here:
[url]http://forum.evageeks.org/post/709071/Do-we-need-to-know-about-the-timeskip/?highlight=#709071[/url]

Referring back to that post by TMBounty_Hunter that ElMariachi kindly links to, I offer a slightly different take. I propose to apply the five-act structure to Rebuild of Evangelion in the following way: Act 1: He described the first act as "Love"; the play opens auspiciously, using gentle...

In other words... It was confusing as shit, no one knows of what happened since no info was disclosed and whole movie looks like it's full of plot holes... And that is sign of genius... how? Yes, Rebuild 3.0 causes confusion and has a lack of information about what happened in the setting, but ...

Who does Shinji have? Asuka likely hates him for what he did to her in the Bardiel incident, in addition to N3I (although she did at least care enough for him to at least pull him out of the plug, but who knows if she did that for altruistic purposes). Minor nitpick here. I am confident tha...

If you want to abbreviate my forum name, I would prefer "Jorno" over "J". J, I'd be curious to hear your take on the Nerv (now Wille) members seeing the giant red Rei that Shinji pulled into Zeruel. Do you think this factored into their thoughts at all? Also, they saw...