If all angels start out as embryoic like sandalphon, why didnt they put more effort in locating the angels before reaching maturity? Sandalphon is literally the only one ever shown like that. Seeing how dangerous and important the angels are "oh yes, we know there a bunch of naked dudes / eggs ...

I still think its not meant to be literal, because, well, think about it. Its already a mystery how angels exactly appear (they are just there), but now ive got to believe they first spawned as a human(oid) and then change intro a weird abstract form (like Leliel or Ramiel)? They all first spawn lik...

Exactly!

No i'm not, i know the difference between lillin and angels. But when they are both called humans, i dont think they mean their actual form (arms, legs, all that). Less literal. I'm not convinced that all angels start out as a humanoid and then change however they see fit. I always thought it as a m...

I never thought Sandalphon was an actual human (just because he looks like a human embryo, same with adam in his devolved form doesnt mean its actually human), if he was, he could not have survived those conditions. Which is kinda my point. Its not like they get born from a human as a baby and then ...

Angels are just very similar (dna and all) to human(oids) but they embraced the fruit of life, not wisdom, thus shedding their "human side" as it were.

This doesn't mean they were born like human(oid) entities and then changed forms as we see in the series.

I think there's a difference between being awake (the opposite of sleeping) like you are implying here and an eva awakening (opening up to its full potential) like in eoe or more distinctive in nte.

The only one that says it to his face, yes

Hmm, thanks Settie, that was really insightful. 3.33 always bugged me about how Shinji is being treated, it doesn't seem fair despite everything we know / see. But the way you explained it, it makes perfect sense. Wille (and thus Misato) might even have used Shinji as a scapegoat, wether it was all ...

I'll have to agree with pwhodges here. CT, you seem to have a very negative opinion about Asuka's character, as is your right to have an opinion, but I really don't believe that "most people" would agree with your statements. I saw Asuka as someone would puts up a mask to hide her emotions...

@TheCarkolum If you just call something "good" without explanation, or "dumb" without explanation ... then those are non-debatable points. You didn't come here to discuss your opinion / ideas. You just came to tell us what your opinion is, even though it means nothing to any of u...

Unless they would have just explained it beforehand, like Rei is really gone, but there are others, they are in control of Nerv which is now the badguy. And presto, Shinji would think twice letting Mark9 take him. I really don't buy that Gendo would assume (the whole plan hinges on this) that Wille ...

And I meant I'm not buying that, UNLESS he is influencing the outcome somehow (or already knows the outcome, like he can actually see the future or something)

Exactly, but how (would he really scheme this big apocalyptic masterplan purely on an assumption?)? If there was just a hint of Gendo's influence at Wille (maybe there is, but we havent spotted it yet) then I could believe that. But just to say "they acted like i thought they would" to jus...

@Reichu I agree partly, ofcourse its all Gendo's masterplan. But with Wille I mean how he was treated. He doesn't know what has happened (neither do we, the viewers), but apparantly everyone on the base tries really hard to make Shinji feel he is unwanted. Misato, the mother figure, is cold and tell...

Eva isn't by far perfect, it has enough faults. But if all you comment is "its pathetic/dumb/a joke" then chances are, you simply didn't get it at all. If you did, you would be able to tell us why exactly you think that and you wouldn't use such ambigious words either. I'm by no means a mi...

It would help if people would explain things to Shinji. The guy is obviously very troubled, lets stick him in a multi-billion apocalypse-machine, what could go wrong, right? Most of the time Shinji simply doens't know what the hell is going on, no wonder he keeps making the wrong decisions. It's not...

@ TheCarkolum Ofcourse you are entitled to your own opinion, but most of the stuff you list is plainly wrong. You bash a lot without actually explaining why. Just bashing it "this dumb, that is a joke, this is pathetic, etc" doesn't really help anyone so I'm wondering why you wrote it in t...

I would certainly like to see Rei still playing an important role in the final impact, like in EoE (quantum Rei), these mysterious sightings seem to hint towards that. Or not, Anno could just leave it alone and just keep it as a mysterious but unexplained thing about Rei, so that we can keep on fanw...

Mind tho, the infinities seem to be made completely out of Core. It seems to me that Core needs a soul to function, without it, its pretty much a useless crystal. So i think the infinities aren't something close to an eva. Just a temporary vessel to transport the soul that would no longer exist afte...