DatDude wrote:Because no detail about their gender is given anydamn place. It could just as easly by said they are male and just brought their eggs to earth to hatch.
Kaworu refers to Adam as the mother figure of the Angels. Lilith quite clearly has LCL coming out of her midsection, which does not occur with males. Lilith is also the mother figure for humanity, and LCL bears a very strong resemblance to the primordial soup of life. It's quite clear that humanity did not arise from eggs, so the idea that Lilith brought eggs along from somewhere is incorrect.
In general, Adam and Lilith are portrayed as being sources of life, with all other life being their offspring. And this corresponds better with them being mothers than with them being male, seeing how giving birth to offspring is generally reserved for females.
Edit: I think that in your haste to backlash against overanalysis of NGE that you are going too far and putting too much emotional investment into the issue. At this point in time, I wonder if, for example, the asking of plot clarification questions, or the sketching out of accepted theories like Eva-01 arising from Lilith, would not be met with a response like "FOR GODS SAKE WHO CARES IT'S AN ANIME AND NGE IS NOT ABOUT ANALYZING THE SERIES, GO OUTSIDE AND SEE THE SUN!!"
It's true that Anno did not necessarily think everything through, that he changed the plot halfway through, and that he would not necessarily be pleased for people to spend great amounts of time analyzing the motivations of characters and so forth. But he clearly put considerable time into figuring out what happened behind the scenes, so to speak, and it's reasonable for people to try to figure out what did happen behind the scenes, by putting together what we do see in order to determine the unseeable. I don't see what's wrong with that.
