What gives Shinji the will to carry on despite all he's been through? Maybe meeting someone who was saved in some way by his actions before N3I. Maybe some stranger finds him and thanks him for fighting the angels when nobody else could or would. Something to remind him that he's done some good in ...

It actually works the same in real life. A medic can save a hudnreds of lives but if he makes a mistake and kills one, only that kill will be remembered. I'd also like to point out that this is absolute bunk with no basis in realism. If this were true, every medic ever would be remembered as a fail...

Wait, wasn't the lesson about how everything brings additional unforeseeable consequences and, just like... thing with Yui brought Rei into this world or 14-year hell made another Rei, Kaworu's death may result in something good, that may be used to bring him back given enough repetition? I'm not s...

I liked the voice acting a lot. There's nobody in the movie whose voice work I have any real complaints about. Also, what smug smile? I don't remember Shinji ever smiling smugly in 1.0. Especially not after defying Misato's orders. He was very, very sad in that movie. It's easily him at his most dep...

I'm also in agreement with pwhodges on this one. Shinji only learns what he's responsible for pretty gradually in the movie. The only times he's able to interact with Wille at all is when he's completely ignorant of everything in the beginning and at the very end, where he's very much in the middle ...

Finally seeing the movie on DVD cemented my belief that the people claiming Shinji is hated just saw that first camrip in 2012 or heard rumors about it, so that myth stuck in their heads and even after seeing the movie on an actual screen, all they can think about is WILLE treating him like he was a...

I guess I stand somewhat corrected on the "Let me kill you" line. In the dub, she says "take your punishment."

I finally got around to watching the dub last night. I liked it. What are my thoughts? That unsurprisingly, everyone whining about Shinji being mistreated and hated was full of shit once again. Just being melodramatic. At best, WILLE appears to be irritated with him. At worst, they're pretty pissed....

Did this thread really need to take such a depressing turn? Well we're talking about Shinji's attitude, so yes. It's not true to say that everything is hopeless for him or that everyone would be better off without him, but after what he's been through lately, it's completely believable that he woul...

I actually think this is somewhat plausible. Not the "taking pleasure in it" part, because Shinji's not a sadomasochist, and if he really hates himself, he's not going to allow himself to take pleasure in anything. But I certainly see him being intentionally reckless. Everyone has a breaki...

Or, quite bluntly, Shinji "is" Gendo and Rei is Yui, in the sense that the Rei fandom is here rooting for Shinji to Bring Back Rei when Gendo wanting to Bring Back Yui, the world be damned, was pretty much his entire motive as an antagonist in EoTV. Maybe that's what Shin Eva is setting u...

Heck, maybe the only way she can return is for Shinji to accept his loss. Like, it would make for a good counter to Gendo. While Gendo tried everything, including committing extremely questionable actions to get Yui back, he failed. Shinji on the other hand, accepted the loss of Rei, and that is wh...

What really bugs me about 3.33 and the people who defend it is that they fail to realize or even acknowledge that 14 Years have passed for Asuka and Misato. 14 years. They knew Shinji for a few months as a friend/surrogate mother, and 14 years as the one who hurt them in such a personal and invasiv...

Ray, quoting Kendrix to try to disprove our claim that Kendrix was wrong about something really isn't an argument. I really don't see how that scene proves what Kendrix says it proves. It's more like Kendrix believes something about the characterization and then reinterprets or assumes things about ...

I'll just post a link to this thread full of Kendrix posts. Maybe we can even get an Admin to unlock it. http://forum.evageeks.org/thread/15423/Does-Asuka-hate-Shinji-in-Q-Split/ That's not gonna be reliable. I distinctly remember her emphatically talking about this "brutal kick" that Asu...

Now I like where it's going even more. It's very interesting to see Shinji struggling to slowly but surely re-integrate himself into the world. I look forward to seeing how Asuka's reaction of that continues to develop.

We also don't know that she's actually "missing" an eye. If anything it appears there's something angelic under her eyepatch. She clearly does not hate him. She called for his help in the retrieval of Unit 01 when she had no logical reason to believe he could help. That says, to me at leas...

I really like this premise so far. I also like that you went with the angle that Shinji didn't actually destroy the world. The only criticism I have is that I feel like you rushed through Shinji getting interrogated after arriving at New Constantinople by just describing it rather than showing it. I...

GoatJesus#826460 wrote:I know most of you will probably stick with Spike to the end, but I honestly think he should've probably let the role go to someone else for the Rebuilds.

I think that's a terrible idea. Spike has done very well.

pwhodges#823291 wrote:Reticence is what you read if you want more fighting than my equivalent offering gives you (and in that regard I admit it's probably somewhat closer to what we'll get).

Reticence kind of takes the "Everybody hates Shinji" myth a bit too far IMO, though.