[EVA] The Moon & Preliminary Plot

[Rachel K. Clark]

Peter Svensson wrote:

>>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.

How is this retroactive? The MP Evas were anticipated before the "retcons"; 
they were just put by the wayside in EoTV, like so much else.. (And they are 
also absent in the Proposal.)

> 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.

If there proof that this is the case, or is this just speculation? Also, how 
would a clone of Yui being an "Angel" fit into the pre-EoE narrative?

Also, if this is just a "retcon", why would they associate Rei with the Moon 
from the get-go? As mentioned, the First Impact business is embedded early 
on and Lilith's mask is spotted with craters (= Moon motif).

> The TV ending is the best proof of this. Rei is nothing special, holds no 
> special power in that version of the ending.

After the Case of Rei Ayanami (wherein Rei 1 acts a harbinger of the 
uncomfortable truth) Gendo approaches Rei in a scene directly paralleled in 
EoE, and he says that she has existed for "this day". Given EoTV's nature, 
what's going on here is hardly explicated, but the presence of this scene 
(and the various other indications that Gendo needs her for something) seems 
to contradict the idea that Rei is "nothing special".

Also, I don't see why they would give Rei an ATF exceeding all others in its 
badassitude if she lacked any special qualifications. And Rei's musings 
(after Kaworu says "You're the same as me") don't make much sense if she is 
'Angelic' (whatever that term denotes) and nothing more.

>>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.

How so?


-Reichu