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

[Peter Svensson]

>I would imagine that the idea of multiple "Apostolos" descending from the 
>Moon was out by the time the anime started production.

I'm not quite sure. The first half of Eva is almost exactly the same as the 
preproduction document plans for the series stated. With that, and the fact 
that the various truths and secrets about the series were being made up as 
they went along, I can see that Gainax was making it up as they went along.

Mind you, the idea of multiple Shito descending from the moon was probably 
out by the halfway mark because of budgetary reasons.

Fly Me to the Moon was probably commissioned early in the production process 
so they were stuck with it.

>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.)

Retroactively.

>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.

Rei being Lillith is an after the fact retcon. Nothing in the series implies 
that until EoE and the Directors Cut footage. From the TV series as aired, 
Rei is just another Angel as was Kaworu. The TV ending is the best proof of 
this. Rei is nothing special, holds no special power in that version of the 
ending. Gainax knew that she was a clone of Yui, and that she was Angelic, 
but I'm fairly certain that given the way that they managed to go 24 
episodes without really giving up any information on her origins that they 
weren't sure about the Lillith thing until the very end.

>(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.

In the narrative established in the TV series, it would make as much sense 
as anything. The films changed the narrative because they realized that they 
had to come up with answers to the questions they had posed and didn't have 
much time.

Peter Svensson

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