[EVA] character of Misato

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From: "Drew Lewis" <83drew at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [EVA] character of Misato


> 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.
> -- 
Is that the "we'll self-destruct NERV" scenario you are referring to?  If so 
its not thinking, so much as feeling IMO.  All is lost, time for kamikaze, 
maybe, plus a desire to wipe out all the badness in one act.