Jinroh wrote:My post seemed to have disappeared, strange... is it because of the password?
Anyway, it was a few questions:
os189#913244 wrote:Any questions?
I have a few questions that come to mind.
1) Is there anything about Rei 2 at all? After all, Shinji started third impact to save her.
2) Do they elaborate on the third impact events?
3) What's the point with the FOIs? Are they sentient? Or are they just here to revert back to humans?
4) What's up with the Wunder / black Wunder?
5) Anything was kept from the 4+1 preview?
6) What is the role of Evangelion Mark.10? Nobody has talked aobut it yet.
Thank you.
I wish I had better answers but my Japanese is too lousy to follow the fast dialogue, but I'll give my best answers to what I THINK was going on, visually.
1. Yes, Rei 2 comes back, but only as a spirit, tied to Unit 01. At least, I THINK that was her. She's naked and her hair is really long. Ultimately, she appears to Shinji and talks to him, but no, she doesn't come back to life.
2. Yes, they talk about second impact, third impact, fourth impact....I only know this cause they kept saying it over and over in English!
3. What are FOIs?
4. The black looking Wunder is one of two ships controlled by Gendo/NERV that attack the Wunder.
5. Damn...can't remember the previews. As far as the preview at the very end of 3.0 with the half and half Eva, that's not in it at all, but I think we all figured that out years ago.
6. There's a few new "bad" Evas....some with skulls for heads and some that look like variations on Mari's pink Eva. None of them do anything significant....they just fight the good guys, and one of them infects the Wunder with it's blue blood and takes over the controls.
Asuka and Mari's Evas do craaaaazy new stuff, like Beast Mode on steroids.
But the main battle is Eva 13 (Gendo) vs Eva 01 (Shinji) and the battle is mostly metaphysical and breaks the fourth wall a lot.
Melkor wrote:If Mari is a clone too like Rei and Asuka (likely given their last names all end with -nami), that might explain why she seemingly hasn't aged since meeting Gendo and Yui in college, because the Mari we see now is not the original that met Gendo and Yui in college, but rather a clone of her. Perhaps the original Mari's name was Maria Iscariot, the name which Fuyutsuki called her by in some of the earlier leaks. If Mari is a clone of this Maria person and Rei is a clone of Yui, then following this pattern could Asuka be a clone of Kyoko?
I'm okay with the prospect of Shinji and Mari, kind of, sort of, maybe becoming a thing, if that's what the last scene with them was implying, but does the movie at least develop them first by giving them plenty of interactions throughout the film, or is that scene with them on the beach the only meaningful interaction they have in the entire movie and it just came out of nowhere with no build-up? As long as it's believable and was given enough time to grow, that's what matters.
No real meaningful interaction between them other than her rubbing her giant boobs on his back and saying "Hey remember me?"
Then at the end, she pops out of the water in her school girl outfit, her hair down and her glasses off, and her white shirt is clinging to her body....it's like an 80s beer commercial. Then Shinji's like "Yay, you're alive!"
Then we flash to them actually being a few years older and they seem like a real, happy couple cause Shinji seems confident for the first time in his life. Because of that, it felt right to me. Then boom. Credits. Not much time to really process any of it to be honest.
She really is a "Mari" Sue isn't she? Comes in out of nowhere, is perfect, no flaws, everyone loves her.
She does have a scene with Fuyutski that was realllllly damn important but of course I couldn't follow what the hell they were saying. (They had a conversation, it was implied they go way back, then he "popped" into LCL like in EOE. He is only one of two characters that popped that way unlike everyone doing it in EOE.)