Shin-seiki wrote:I'm afraid that your curious antipathy to Rei ... occasionally seems to serve as an obstacle to your appreciation of some of what I would consider the more profound points of Evangelion.
On an intellectual level, I dig all of the points people (such as yourself) have made about her. On a personal level, though, her character continues to irritate me. (She's actually one of the things about NGE that drives me to commit the deadly sin of fanfic-writing... but nevermind that... -o-
All of the things I like about NGE's version of Lilith, Rei pretty much goes and ruins for me (so I go and separate the two in my mind so that I can still hold the white blob in adoration). And all of the things I like about Rei herself, she ruins for me on her own accord. Blah. I'll admit my "curious antipathy" is pret-ty weird, but look at it this way: Rei fanboys boggle me as much as I no doubt boggle them.
Some random questions, though... (Mostly to be annoying.
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- Why should Armisael give a damn whether Rei "wants to be one with Ikari-kun"?
- If Rei "wants to be one with Ikari-kun", why is Armisael embracing YUI's head? ("Ikari-kun" is in Yui's back, not her head, you silly angel.)
- Isn't YUI the one who was really crucified? I mean, she got bloody holes through her palms; all Shinji suffers from are little dark spots. (Not really fair, in my opinion... Yui-sama's doing all the work, and Shinji gets to be "god". What a croc.)
- If Rei-III's memory was so spotty, how'd she remember all of her enigmatic adoration for Shinji, anyway?
And just to point out another thing, Rei isn't standing on the sea of blood (that's not LCL! didn't we have an argument about this before?) -- she's levitating above it.
Look closely at her feet and the little, barely visible shadow (yes, yes, I know the foreground is distracting
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Originally posted on: 01-Jan-2004, 17:37 GMT