[EVA] Rei's Origins (repost)

[Brian Haynes]

>This is an example of the most annoying part of EVA, and it wouldn't be 
>half
>so annoying if EVA wasn't so damn good. It's obvious that all the Christian
>religion stuff is not really Anno's focus in the story because his
>resolution in 25 and 26 focused entirely on Shinji. The robots were not
>important, the reason for Instrumentality was not important, what was
>important was their effects on Shinji and his development as a person. 
>While
>that is important, there seemed to be a point behind all the major plotting
>betwen Seele and Gendo. To find out it's really not important is rather
>annoying. It would be like having a Return of the Jedi where the battle
>betwen the Rebel fleet and the Empire occurs off-screen and we only see the
>Vader-Palpatine-Luke confrontation. "The story is about the redemption of
>Vader. None of the other stuff is important." Ok, so everything ends happy
>we guess but we don't see the resolution of the galactic civil war which is
>what we thought the movies were also about. And the elaboration of the God
>Plot provided by the two EVA movies? It would be like Lucas remaking the 
>end
>of ROTJ with Luke regressing until he's worse than his whiny farmboy self
>and everyone dies because of his inaction.

Amen to that.

>EVA still leaves behind a lot of questions, not good questions as a show
>should stimulate but bad questions that relate to the basics of the show
>that were not answered in the episodes or films. What force set all this
>into motion? Is it God? Is it a highly powerful godlike entity within this
>universe?

I would suggest that God or some godlike entity is at least behind setting 
this whole thing up.  The importance of souls in NGE and the fact that the 
whole series seems like it was a setup by someone or something suggests that 
to me.  It would be too simple, IMO, to just pass of the angels as suddenly 
"being there", or "waking up."  That's crap, if you ask me.  There's nothing 
like the angels, except for EVA, and EVAs were made from Adam and Lillith 
anyhow.  It would seem that they were there for a purpose, and a purpose 
suggests intent by an intelligent entity behind the scenes.  The fact that 
no God is really mentioned in the series doesn't mean that we can't theorize 
that something or someone is working behind the scenes.

Why does Yui feel the existence of EVA-01 floating in space
>proving that humanity existed have any bearing on anything? Does this mean
>that there are things out there that would actually see this and care? How
>did a bunch of Jewish rebels running from the Romans have time to figure 
>out
>all this stuff about the Technology of God? Did they have visions? If so,
>from what?

The explanation I've heard is that the "Dead Sea Scrolls" is just another 
religious term used as a name for something else.  I don't know about that, 
but the information that the Dead Sea Scrolls give Gendo and SEELE might be 
a more general timeline, as opposed to technical schematics on how to make 
EVAs.

And why do a bunch of powerful old men give a shit about people
>feeling lonely because of separation from each other? This is adolsecent
>angst motivation. Old powerful men really would not give a shit about 
>angst.
>Using EVA for temporal power, you betcha. Causing Third Impact and sucking
>everyone into Nirvana? Eh, I don't think so. I could see that as a secret
>motive of a Gendo and something Seele had no idea would occur. Oh, and that
>gives the final question: what's the difference between controlled and
>uncontrolled Third Impact? What would Gendo do differently? I assume it had
>something to do with Yui -- become godlike and resurrect her soul?
>
>Anyway, enough ranting. Dammit! If EVA wasn't so damn good I wouldn't care!
>;)

Amen to that. ^_^
     -Deus

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