[EVA] The TV series ending of Evangelion (spoiler!) (social S artre-ism)

[David Welborn]

> << Is the TV ending supposed to make any sense? From the TV ending, it
seems
> like the HCP was successful because Misato was telling Shinji that he
could
> now have any reality he wanted. >>
> 
>  In the TV, Shinji is given the power over his reality, to make of
> that reality what he will.  Now, everyone claims that the
Instrumentality
> Project failed in the movies, but Shinji somehow managed to resurrect
Asuka.
> Strangely enough, he _shouldn't_ have the power to do that, unless
> Instrumentality was a success.  So try this on.  Shinji's
Instrumentality
> World in the movies is one in which he thought Instrumentality failed.
<g>
> Did that make _any_ sense?

clear as mud!

I believe Shinji and Asuka both chose that world---that they both had
walls so high (protecting their true inner self from exposure), that
they couldn't accept tearing them down to 'join' with the rest of
humanity.  You could argue that they created a world of codependance
(hell), or that they created a world in which they could work on
removing the walls (purgatory).  

If hell is other people, at least now they only have one other to worry
about.

Welbo