Plots you would have liked for an episode

[cyharding]

Well, I was thinking that something on the level of second impact would bring out some crazy amongst the survivors. Also, it could reflect that many people wish in their hearts for what Seele wants to do and that the organization is not alone in their opinions. It's that Seele has the means and knowhow to do it.

[TMBounty_Hunter]

To me the cult angle seems improbably, at least in Tokyo-3. It just seems like the city is too controlled to allow rabble like that to get any traction.

The plot of the pilots being targeted is appealing though, but to me it always seemed like it would come from more organized parties than cults. Either shadey groups within Japan or just completely foreign agents. Those types of people should be able to keep quite enough until it's time to act to avoid the detection by the fortress city security forces.

[NemZ]

2nd impact would definately be sufficient to bring out the end times fanatic in some folks. Perhaps midwestern American evangelicals, or a massive influx to Jehova's Witnesses when one of their predictions actually lined up with 2I by accident.

[nervshatter]

How about an episode with the children getting accidently drunk, or they come across an angel that causes the children to act out of character.

[Mr. Tines]

ITT American popular culture being wedged awkwardly into the Japanese milieu. Like talk of Halloween-based fanfic in the Fanfiction subforum.

[Katana]

How about an episode with the children getting accidently drunk, or they come across an angel that causes the children to act out of character.

That would be hilariously awesome.

[Kendrix]

Well, I was thinking that something on the level of second impact would bring out some crazy amongst the survivors. Also, it could reflect that many people wish in their hearts for what Seele wants to do and that the organization is not alone in their opinions. It's that Seele has the means and knowhow to do it.

Touché.
Excellent point. You could fit it late in the series, when Tokyo-3 is already beginning to crumble away.

If the good guys already know about the conspiracy by then, it could really serve to demoralize them, at least Misato and especially Shinji, who'd ponder the merit in saving this cruel, ungrateful world anyway.

Not to mention the personal horror of being targeted - Shinji wouldn't take an assasination attempt well, Rei is most likely under orders to self-terminate if captured, and Asuka could go either way. On the one hand, she has battle training and at least something resembling martial arts skills, and would probably have little qualms to bash in the heads of anyone that attacks her first, but on the other hand, has she ever participated in actual combat with ppl seriously out to kill her? She's still 14, and her own body is a lot more fragile than EVa 02 with its 12000 armor places and exty megawatt AT field.

Also, it could be an opportunity to showcase Misato's and Asuka's military backgrounds. Heck, that's a good idea in itself.

I felt that was a missed opportunity in GoS.
Mana highly values comeradery between pilots and gets to have a certain respect for Asuka, at some point sending Shinji after her after an argument, but Asuka's just plain jelly.

As far as team dynamics go, Mana's closer to being the Rei of the trident pilots (the more obedient one who worries about her comerades, to Keita's "wimpy guy" and Musashi's more agressive, assertive personality) but she and Asuka are both young girls subjected to battle training, allthough they percieved it in different ways.

What about a scene where Asuka tries to prove her spy theory by assaulting Mana during PE class, causing her to reveal herself with an instinctive reaction too good for a regular schoolgirl.

[Guy Nacks]

An episode focusing on the Bridge Bunnies would have been cool, and would have helped flesh out their characters a bit more.

Taking that a step further, my most desired and feasible choice would have been for an episode to focus on what life for civilian families would have been like. Your best move at this point would have been to do an episode revolving around Kensuke, Hikari and pre-episode 17 Toji. No appearances from any of the main cast would be required. As a bonus, it could even be a future/past angel since we wouldn't be constantly cutting to the main cast every few minutes.

[G2Megatron]

I would have enjoyed an episode, or atleast a few scenes showing Toji and Hikari, did their Relationship advance ever after the Bardiel attack? Were they evacuated to the same place after Tokyo 3 was destroyed? I felt disappointed there were no scenes of the school friends going through instrumentality in EoE

[Dataprime]

That one episode when Shinji & Asuka were going to go on a class trip to Okinawa but, never happened
Man.. I really wanted to see how what would have played out

[Violet Shadow]

An episode where Kaworu goes to school with Shinji and hangs out with him could be quite interesting. We need to know more about what the Children do when they're at school. Does Kaworu even attend school?

[pwhodges]

Does Kaworu even attend school?

In the manga he gets Shinji to show him the way to school when they first meet, but then doesn't go in when Shinji refuses to (because of not being able to face Touji's other friends). That's the only semi-canon link between Kaworu and school, I think.

[SEELE-01]

Some ideas I have:
Something showing the building of the MP Evas complete with Gendo and Fuyu visiting the building site á la Evangelion 2.0.
Some out-of-school interaction of Touji and Kensuke.
Misato and other important personnel moving around with bodyguards as the series progresses.
A talk between high ranking government people and Nerv regarding it's political protection and budget, something that ends up bad and indirectly triggers the invasion of the HQ in 25'

[Joy Evangelion]

^^Along a similar vein as this, it might have been cool if there could have been an entire episode dealing with the construction of Eva-04 so we can see what the North American Nerv crew is all about, and what the Eva's pilot was like and whether they were as interesting as their Japanese counterparts.

Of course, I know that the characters in NGE are what make it what it is and there wouldn't be much point in making an episode in which we only see all of the characters once, but, whatever.

[SEELE-01]

there wouldn't be much point in making an episode in which we only see all of the characters once.

CofKaworuCofCof

[Ringworm128]

A new pilot comes along that's pretty much a worse version of Asuka. So Asuka won't be able to do her usual stuff like kicking and acting all high and mighty because the new pilot won't take it for a second. It could work as a great episode where Asuka is forced to look at a mirror of herself.

[ElMariachi]

^
Sounds like Gob's fanfic You Can (Never) Trust.

[CJD]

An angel hiding somewhere in Tokyo 3 starts causing random items to disappear into hammerspace. Incidentally, one of the items that disappears is Asuka's panties. The rest of the episode is spent following Asuka around throughout the day as she overcomes numerous obstacles that risk exposing her lack of panties.

[riffraff11235]

An angel hiding somewhere in Tokyo 3 starts causing random items to disappear into hammerspace. Incidentally, one of the items that disappears is Asuka's panties. The rest of the episode is spent following Asuka around throughout the day as she overcomes numerous obstacles that risk exposing her lack of panties.

...You mean like that one recent episode of IS ~ Infinite Stratos 2?

[CJD]

...You mean like that one recent episode of IS ~ Infinite Stratos 2?