[EVA] The Moon & Preliminary Plot (was: Final release of original Eva?)

[Rachel K. Clark]

Peter Svensson wrote:

> Rei has been associated with the moon since Episode 1. (Check the OP.) The 
> moon was originally going to be even more involved with the plot in the 
> original draft of the plot, hence Fly Me To The Moon as the ED.

I would imagine that the idea of multiple "Apostolos" descending from the 
Moon was out by the time the anime started production. To start with, they 
seem to have been conceptually replaced by the Mass Production Model Evas, 
whose existence was prognosticated as early as #07. (Seele planned on making 
12 of them, and, of course, they all attack at once very near the end.) And 
Rei is associated with the Moon because, in NGE's backstory, it is a product 
of the Black Moon colliding into Earth (First Impact), marking Lilith's 
arrival. (The First Impact business is also tucked away in #07, although 
they leave the audience to deduce the Lilith and Black Moon connection...) 
In the narrative established in the anime, La Luna servicing as a rookery 
for 12 of Adam's children wouldn't have made much sense.

-Reichu