[EVA] character of Misato

[Drew Lewis]

On 8/19/07, RJN <rjn at beeb.net> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [EVA] character of Misato
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> > At 08:45 PM 8/18/2007, Drew Lewis wrote:
> >>On 8/18/07, RJN <rjn at beeb.net> wrote:
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> >>> From: "Drew Lewis" <83drew at gmail.com>
> >>> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 9:59 PM
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> >>> >>>RJN <rjn at beeb.net>
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >>>They seem to be making Misato rougher :(
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > I dunno, she smacks Shinji one in the Manga.  And she also comes off
> a
> >>> > bit more affectionate if that handholding scene is her as well.
> >>> > --
> >>> >True, but manga Misato (like all the other characters) is different.
> >>> >In the TV series she admonishes Shinji hard, but uses no physical
> >>> >force.
> >>> >OTOH the EoE Misato is harder although still caring.  Perhaps Rebuild
> >>> >will make Misato more backwardly consistent with EoE Misato.
> >>> >It will be interesting to see also how much of manga Misato has been
> >>> >worked into the movies.
> >>> >RJN
> >>
> >>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
> >
> I think after losing Kaji we see one more "family" breakfast where Misato
> has a beer, but no more drinking after that.  She never had a hangover or
> was sloppy anytime on duty IIRC.
>
> Misato harsher in EoE was understandable for the circumstances, as
> Shinji's
> funk was extreme & Misato was in despair about what to do with him.  I
> really really hope Rebuild's Shinji is not more backwardly consistent from
> *his* EoE state of mind.  That scene in the trailer, of Misato dragging
> him
> from a classroom could well be from an alternate part of Rebuild replacing
> TV eps 2-3. ^_^;
> RJN
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>

I thought they were in the locker room at Nerv in that scene.  Assuming
you're talking about the one where Misato is jerking Shinji to his feet
looking mighty pissed.