[EVA] character of Misato

[Drew Lewis]

On 8/19/07, Harold Ancell <hga at ancell-ent.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >I could go for  a more  EOE-like Misato, she struck me there as more what
> >you would expect from a professional soldier.  Otherwise, I'd argue that
> the
> >new characterization is just that, a hybrid of the manga and show.
>
> Well, desperate times require desperate measures.  Others and I have
> commented that in the TV series, the characters are tested up to and
> sometimes past the point of destruction.  But I'll note that Misato is
> one of the few or only who dramatically improves as the pressure gets
> ever higher, e.g. she goes off alcohol (and onto coffee).
>
> By the time of EoE, and in parallel, we just don't see it, in TV 25-6,
> there is no margin for error or sloppiness, we see her at her very best.
>
> Note that we don't actually see more than a picture or so of the real
> pre-HCP Misato in TV 25-6, so what she does in EoE can be entirely
> consistent with the TV and driven by how dire things have gotten; could
> the stakes be any higher???
>
>                                         - Harold
>
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Good point.

Though not all of her changes were good ones, witness ep. 23,  she  does
seem to  be one of those people who  really shine under pressure, unlike
most of the cast excepting possibly Hyuga and Gendo.

We'll just forgo the whole 'what -was- Misato thinking' debate, that's been
beaten to death already.