[EVA] Evangelion Chronicle -- My (tentative) verdict

[M]

> Boggles the mind indeed.
> I guess we were already prepared for [sparseness of new info]...but  
> I admit I didn't think the work would've been arranged in a way  
> so...<snip> "we may never know the truth" or "it appears to be" in  
> a way or the other...but that's freebies on the frickin' Interwebs!

Yes, the irritating thing is not the errors or misleading  
information, since as I said these are relatively minor and few  
overall (and let's face it, as a human work it would be nearly  
impossible to present this much information without having a few  
errors slip in).  It was the contrived vagueness (seems/appears/etc.)  
that bugged me, especially since Evangelion Chronicle is being billed  
as an "Evangelion Encyclopedia" that supposedly answers all the  
questions.  In fact I am surprised that they even identified Lilith  
as the 2nd Angel, and think that it might have been an unintentional  
slip.  I can easily see a future entry regarding the giant on the  
cross in Terminal Dogma saying that Lilith is "said to be the missing  
2nd Angel, but the truth is not known."

Incidentally, here is the part about the cores and the S2 Engine.
This is all enclosed in a little white box under the heading  
"Additional report"
[From page 01-20: Technology Sheet 01 - Evangelion 1]

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"A part called the "core" is present in the Evangelion's chest area.   
It's role is unclear (*gah!*), but it is unmistakably an important  
part.  In addition, during its battle against the 14th Angel Zeruel,  
EVA-01 is said to have taken the S2 Engine, an organ peculiar to the  
Angels, into itself, and thereafter generated the same thing within  
its own body."

Directly below this is a sketch of an Eva's torso with an exposed  
core and a screencap of Zeruel closing the protective cover over it's  
exposed core, under which is the following text:

"Angels have an S2 Engine either inside or outside of their body."
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See what I mean by misleading?  It never actually says [Core = S2  
Engine], but the wording and juxtaposition of images and text  
strongly implies it.


> Thanks for the review and the sacrifical expense.

Oh, I expect to recoup most if not all of it.

"M"