darthikari wrote:As creepy as it may seem, NME Ritsuko seems to have taken enough precautions against an EOE "Shinji visits Ausuka in the hospital" scene
Everything about it looks more like it’s for containment than life support, and the needles and wires around her aren’t doing anything to change that impression either, they almost make it look like Asuka
el has hyphae coming out of her. Given that this comes just before Maya and Ritsuko discuss contamination it’s probably intentional.
So maybe it’s to keep Asukael from strangling Shinji(which she already did as part of Bardiel) and the rest of NERV. Oh, and those cylinders surrounding her are supposed to be suppressors, right?
NAveryW wrote:http://projectenthalpy.com/synctest.png
You know, palette and hair notwithstanding, Rei and Shinji look almost identical in this shot. And this wouldn't be the only part of the film that has scenes dropped in that highlight the parallels between those two
and Yui to a lesser extent (granted they’ve done that since the original EVA), but it seems like they're more aggressive about it this time around, especially if we consider the metaphorical context around having them both dissolve in the same womb in the end.