Asuka's Shinji's interaction/shipping in EoE (was Re: [EVA] Anno Top Runner interview / youtube)

[Gwern Branwen]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:43 PM, EB <marestes at gmail.com> wrote:
> the fact of the matter then is that your "anti shipping" is what makes you
> feel this scenes are tacked on; if you analyze Asuka's character only
> without any sense of relationship attached, you will realize her character
> greatly benefited from those "tacked on" scenes.
>
> You and Tines need to get over the fact that Anno made A/S canon despite
> your dislike and stop treating these as "retconing" simply because it
> clashes with your view of how Anno should have kept Eva to your liking; to
> me it seems like your problem with DC, NemZ, is that Anno clarified his
> position on making A/S canon and that busted the bubble that Asuka was a
> bitch, amking people realize she is simply a girl that's unable to properly
> express herself, just like Rei.
>
> Only unlike Rei, she gets the boy in the end.

Well said.

"Perhaps Asuka thought that the two [Rei & Shinji] were a couple or at
least in a relationship close to it. Note that in the struggle in her
inner space, a scene where she is hanging her head in dejection with
the sliding door closed has been newly inserted after the scene from
Episode Nine, "Moment and Heart Together," where she shuts the sliding
door. And likewise, after the kiss scene from Episode Fifteen, "Lies
and Silence," there is a new scene showing her looking frustrated
after rinsing her mouth. And from Asuka's dialogue that overlaps these
scenes, it becomes clear that she has been looking for help and love
from Shinji."

-- 
gwern