[EVA] Ritsuko mass murderess!

[RJN]

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From: "Rachel K. Clark" <rachel.k.clark at comcast.net>
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Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: [EVA] Ritsuko mass murderess!


: RJN wrote:
:
: > "Justified"? In destroying them, in her feelings?
:
: These particular lines resound with my sentiments:

*shakes head sadly*
:
: _______________
: RITSUKO:
: These things here that look like Rei have no souls.
: They're just vessels.
: ......
: They're not people. They're things shaped like people.
: _______________
:
: I don't know how Sadamoto justifies giving his Rei clones
'personalities'
: (since they're described as soulless in the manga, as well), but, in
the
: anime, they're depicted as meatsacks lacking any human qualities
whatsoever.
: The fact that they can move and are responsive to stimuli doesn't
mean very
: much, considering these are qualities intrinsic to life as we know
it.
: Unless these bodies were somehow endowed with souls of their own,
they could
: never be anything but instruments devoid of the "spark of life".
:
: For my part, their continued existence is more unethical than
anything else.
: Why should these bodies who will never have an opportunity to TRULY
live as
: human beings unless someone else dies be kept alive?
:
: > I would have liked
: > to see how Rei II herself might have reacted had she been there.
:
: We don't see her reaction on-site, but we see her coldly and
contemplatively
: staring at the aftermath in #25'.
:
: Rei doesn't hold her own existence in much regard; she seems
disappointed
: whenever she finds out "I'm still alive..." The clones represent a
means of
: manipulation and entrapment. Because of them, Rei cannot escape from
her own
: unnatural, unpleasant existence. If she dies, there is simply
another body
: waiting for her. As such, I think she would find the clones'
destruction, on
: the whole, liberating.
:
: > The "detrudo release" seems to be some chemical & other agent that
: > disintegrates organic matter.
:
: See the references to "destrudo" in #20 and #26'. (It turns up in
supplement
: dialogue added to Renewal #21, as well, at Yui's CE.) It seems to
part of
: the whole "metaphysical biology" discipline -- "soul science" -- 
that so
: much of NGE's gobbledygook can be placed under.
:
: > Perhaps similar to what was used to
: > destroy the "dummy" Eva parts when they went wrong. "Liliputian
: > Invader" episode?
:
: I _think_ gizmos called "blasting bolts" are responsible for Eva
limb
: detachment, tho I have no idea how they're supposed to work.
Surgically
: embedded and activated remotely, I guess?
:
: -Reichu
:
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