[EVA] Womb Service

[Rachel K. Clark]

RJN wrote:

> The whole Sea of Dirac scenario is the most mind-boggling in Eva TV
> IMO. I prefer it to the EoE stuff as well.

Sea of Dirac is in #16 (Leliel).

> Sadamoto did well for
> Shinji's "trip" in the manga also, probablyy his best original
> interpretation of the different bits of story.

I could never make any sense of it, myself. Why is there this creepy version 
of Yui telling Shinji to stay inside the "sea"? Why does she still "possess" 
Shinji after the entry plug opens, and why does she turn into a naked EVA-01 
and have some kind of psychic communication with Rei? (...which is another 
thing that I can't make an iota of sense out of.) Why does this weird 
Eva-thing that Shinji says is NOT Yui want to 'become one' with him, and why 
does this spectral, long-haired woman (apparently representing Yui) come out 
of the Eva?

If Sadamoto is trying to make his manga less opaque than the show, it's not 
working on me.

> Going back to Yui's "rescue" of Shinji. She did it because she knows
> Shinji has a mission, she needs to get him back so things can proceed
> towards the inevitable climax.

Judging from EoE, she seems to need him to complete HER mission.

> Finally, did Kyoko "do" anything for Asuka, apart from make her click
> emotionally, & jump start her psyche back to life?

I don't know about "doing" anything for Asuka, but I've had the thought that 
Asuka is doing something for "Mama" in those final moments.

> Asuka was
> decomposing in 02 in the lake

She was perfectly intact. If you're thinking of the quick "Asuka the 
Maggoty" cut, it was entirely in Asuka's head.

> more
> importantly, did the remaining LCL in her plug help Asuka's wounds
> heal from the multiple impalements from the production Evas' lances?

Whatever remained of Asuka's body would have been turned into LCL like 
anyone else's, and the entry plug (along with EVA-02 decrepit remains) 
completely destroyed when the Black Moon exploded (if not earlier), so I'm 
not quite sure what you mean.


-Reichu