and there isn't one on these boards (according to other members) I decided to make this.
So, what do you think?
Instrumentality: The greatest thing to EVER happen or the worst?
Imo, its the worst thing ever: I'd say "Nay", two thumbs WAAAY down, the TRUE Bad End; let's get the Great Will to do a Reset PRONTO, etc, etc.
Regardless of whether it would have been Gendou or SEELE's Scenario, both would have just plain sucked since you cease to be yourself, hell, you cease to exist at all. Its essentially the same as Death.
That's why the Divinity Trinity (Yui, Lilith and Adam) did what they did after Shinji's decision. Humanity WASN'T Instrumentalizied, but instead simply stayed as Tang (slang for "LCL" for any N00bs out there).
I'd say Shinji rejected Instrumentality because despite what the batshit crazy religion of SEELE said, thinking its a step forwards (for evolution's sake or some such BS), its in fact a step backwards.
Yes, there's pain and suffering in life, but there's also a chance a pleasure and happiness, too, which goes along with Yui's words in episode 20, revisited in EoE. (Which is what I personally see the Final Scene as meaning, but that's a topic for another time. ;))
"It's alright."
The fact that Shinji realizes this and makes his decision, in my mind, shows that he HAS matured and grown, DESPITE his earlier suicidally-depressed state throughout EoTV/EoE. He was able to get out of that by seeing how wrong Instrumentality is ("It's different. It's different from what I thought."~What he literally said with rejecting it.) and that right there takes courage and strength...despite the fact Shinji thought he was spineless, a coward, blah blah blah.
"Thankyou." (This moment makes me tear up, its so sweet!)
...Come on everybody, let's give him a hearty "Congratulations!"
"Omedetou! ^__^" (Me, a Shinji Fangirl? No, no, n--yes, yes, yes. ^^; )....*ahem* Thoughts on any of this?
HAY GUYS, HOWZ ABOUT TRYING TO MAKE THE WORLD BETTER BEFORE KILLING YOURSEVLES OFF?
