[EVA] character of Misato

[Drew Lewis]

On 8/19/07, RJN <rjn at beeb.net> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Drew Lewis" <83drew at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [EVA] character of Misato
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> > On 8/19/07, Harold Ancell <hga at ancell-ent.com> wrote:
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> >> >
> >> >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.



No, that's the "let's hit on a grieving teenager" episode.
But for the next one with the self destruct, I agree that's probably what's
going on.