There's a brief shot of an assembly line for mass production of EVA units. Add in the trailer and we might have what King Gendo's last plan is.

@Darkwing Some people, particularly those with eyepatches, would disagree. Then again, the people that the cyclops represents really don't care about Shinji's problems, if they ever did. If Anno wasn't making it plain that he isn't going to Redo the same story all over again I'd ...

Having a warped soul is different than having no soul at all. Just ask EVA-02. More to the point of the topic: I'm hoping for a reset button ending for any of a dozen reasons. However, at this point that's just futilely optimistic. I honestly expect that everyone's going to die horribly,...

@kboy And in all honesty I think he might have laid it on too thick. The plot has to jump through one too many hoops to get Shinji into a position where he'd be willing to yank the spears loose, imo. Between the pointless timeskip, Wille strapping a bomb to his throat (no, I'm still not ...

Yeah. She mentions her, and Shinji isn't particularly interested in finding out more or thinking too hard about what his departure will mean for either of them. Mostly because they'd probably be better off without him to fuck things up even more. At least, that's his line of thought. Pl...

I said paraphrased, and as far as Shinji knew she was dead.

She probably was at the time. I said what I said for a reason. As far as we knew at the moment Asuka was dead and Shinji appeared to be the only one pissed off about it. It segues into his rant at his father for everything he's done to him, but the first thing Shinji says (paraphrased) i...

The scene's really left up to interpretation; it's all in how you're viewing it. And you have a point; Anno even got rid of EVA-02 and EVA-00 with plot contrivances just to drive home that this will be Shinji's story. But to get more to the point, the Dummy Plug incident was the stra...

Not in the slightest. Unless you somehow consider a soldiers who's face has been maimed by a teenagers incompetance is somehow equal to the plight of the same whiny teenager who's mad his dad doesn't like him. Except in any sane universe Asuka wouldn't be considered a soldier. Reall...

I'm going to throw this out here. After watching the whole thing (well, most of it), in conjunction with the ending of 2.0, I can't help but wonder. Did WILLE think that Shinji was the 13th Angel? The collar activated when the 13th's blue pattern activated, and combined with Rits...

Kendrix#586346 wrote:Perhaps significant to the entire discussion of Kaworu's "assessment":




and how no one inferred latent genocidal tendencies from this.

How does admiring a night sky translate to either a death wish or genocide?
Then again this is the definition of nitpicking....

Ohh....I did. Shinji just comes off as nothing more than a petulant brat. I don't see depression towards the end of 2.0...I see a child in the middle of a snit that quietly simmers until he finally blows up in a massive temper tantrum. In other words, you saw only what you wanted to see. Way to...

Dear Lord, I swore I wouldn't go back in here again....Sigh. *Cracks knuckles* Where to begin.... First, I'm just going to say this. Pretend you just woke up from a coma. You're been effectively dead for quite a while, and you're disoriented. You know, that feeling you get when you w...

Just because Asuka got better later (arguable) it doesn't mean she didn't die horribly along with nearly everyone else or that they won't probably die even more horribly very soon. Yui is a pie in the sky, ivory tower sort who is on her way out the door as an immortal goddess fi...

...is that the setting is so bleak and hopeless that there's no bloody point to the story. We've heard this before, but I'd like to flesh that statement out and play devil's advocate. To sum up, half of humanity is already dead before the story even begins. The survivors are some of ...

Because Anno was looking for some of the creepiest imagery involving Yui/Rei/Lillith's face, and settled on those faces growing out of the dickhead EVAs. Seriously, it was like their faces were foreskins or something. I realize that's a disgusting comparison, and I do not apologize. But yeah...

Most of those caricatures are things I've actually seen people outside the forum say at least half a dozen times. I wish I was lying.

List of pet peeves? Let's see: "Shinji sucks." "Asuka handled her emotional problems better than Shinji." "Gendo Ikari wasn't THAT bad...." "Yui Ikari was a good person and a saint!" "Fuyutsuki was innocent of all crimes." "Misato's ...

That's still only a quarter of the movie. We won't see any visual details until a camrip or something his the internet. With a series like this we need everything we can before we start making judgement calls. I realize the hypocrisy of that statement but I really can't bring myself to c...

Split from the Misato Shinji thread And here we run into the other problem plaguing this whole forum....about how many of us have actually seen the movie? We're running on a few tidbits of information with no details. If I had sense I'd have stayed out of the conversations entirely but I ca...