Unit 01 was prized because it could be used as a substitute for Lilith. Presumably, another Evangelion with an S2 Engine could be an Adam substitute? Or, failing that, the Tree of Life AT Field Hubballoo could've done more than summoning the Lance of Longinus, such as summoning the Adam embryo? ...

It was enforced by having a non-Gendo supervisor who's loyal to SEELE but is considered expendable by them. "Hey man, do what you're fucking paid to do."

Gendo had to deposit his DNA sample and it had to be used because Yui's dad demanded it in exchange for his daughter's hand in marriage because bluh bluh bluh the scenario.

There, have a handwave.

Kaworu consistently shows a weird telekinetic control over technology in pretty much every continuity, it could be as simple as that.

Bagheera : For all intents and purposes, Shinji is the Gendo clone of the story. And Gendo is basically Bad End!Shinji who didn't grow up properly and Kaworu is "the idealized Shinji he wants to be" according to Sadamoto. It works out. Plus it disrupts the established Ikari Family dyn...

I've always liked the Gendo theory as an impossible headcanon just so that literally half of Shinji's harem are better, idealized, perfect, literally superhuman versions of his parents.

It also keeps with the trend of Kaworu being Theletos, Rei being Sophia, and Shinji being Man.

Souls can be divided.

It's not relevant to Eva if you don't choke the science monkey a little.

They're human, but they're fundamentally disconnected from the Human Experience that the homo sapien is familiar with and which a work of fiction can discuss and analyze. They're 'alien' in a philosophical sense regardless of how technically human they are.

Both of them are basically divine personifications of unconditional love for all living things, Yui can suck it.

And with the military games . . . it was the camping out in the middle of nowhere that really got me there. I mean, if it's in your back yard sure, but Kensuke made an effort to get pretty isolated. That's pretty elaborate, y'know? Man, do you have any idea how lame it is to go camping ...

Erm. Shinji and Kensuke have all the same friends, and Kensuke is far from well-adjusted. He's a sexual predator in training, he spends his time off camping out and playing military games by himself , and he obsesses over the machines that traumatize the fuck out of the Eva pilots. He is not a ...

Also it means humans still have Adam, Lilith, and 1+ Evas to be screwing around with, meaning SEELE can still try to get their way without a benevolent goddess intervening.

So, now it would appear that Wille is quite confident that it can install Unit-01 as its power source, use it in battle to accomplish its own endgame, and somehow avoid duplicating the very same conditions they're blaming Shinji for. Perhaps there's an extra lance or similar piece of phlebo...

If Wille intended to do anything unethical with Shinji they wouldn't of had Sakura Suzuhara, an extremely compassionate, diplomatic, and sympathetic person in the situation, be his primary overseer during his detaining.

I do not think fun to be pessimistic and I'm not a nihilist, but I think that this story does not have a moral and that there is no redemption or anything positive to be absorbed it. How can you possibly make such an assertion when the story isn't even finished being told? That's like n...

I don't think anybody is being nihilistic or saying there are no hope spots...but that's entirely different from saying, "Shinji had a really bad emotional episode that made him completely fucking done with everything else and not want to deal with it anymore (like in EoE) and i...

There aren't enough clues in the narrative or artistic representation of the movie for it to be a non-physical space of any kind when Evangelion has consistently done so in every single medium and continuity. Also it's thematically inconsistent with everything Q is trying to say about the st...

The only time I remember LCL being red is after impact events, like the Dead Sea of Antarctica, and after the Rei Collective abducts the entire human race. Could that have something to do with it? Either A) Impact events chemically alter LCL in some way, or B) There's just SO MUCH of the...

For the record i still think Rei's soul materializing as the SDAT is fucking hilarious and if it ends up being true then everything about Rebuild of Evangelion was worth it.