Chuckman wrote:Oh, and speaking of S2 engines/cores: The core of an Eva or angel is the philosopher's stone. I totally just figured that out.
The Fruit of Life indeed. I'mma go one step further and propose that the core of man can be considered the brain (Fruit of Wisdom).
For the longest time, I'd actually only had the manga (this was maybe 2006, so through volume 9 approximately) before I'd acquired the entirety of the series, so I'd had a lot of the WTF moments sort of deadened by already knowing about them. I feel like maybe I didn't have vol. 9 before seeing the series, because I remember thinking "Oh hey, it's Kaworu! What's he doing with that cat?"
I think the biggest WTF I had was when I watched 25 and 26. It was just such a jarring transition from 24 that I didn't grasp the fact that they were in Instrumentality, so I was just bombarded with all the concepts without a clue. Granted, I've watched it since then and it makes a lot more sense, especially when linked with the events of EoE, but that first time was so trippy XD
