[EVA] [SPOILER] Question about Misato and Shinji

[Brendan Jamieson]

adam green kalafarski wrote:
>My best guess is that this line has to do with the violent arguement we
>see Shinji and Auska get into in episode 26' where coffee is spilled on
>the floor. At first I though that was an instrumentality head-trip scene
>but Misato's comment leads me to believe it was a flashback to an event
>that actually occured between episode 23 and 24.

This has been discussed to death - but I still think that that argument
taking place in reality is very unlikely. It simply does not fit into
the emotional condition of the characters (specifically if it happened
between 23 and 24, as Shinji again talks to Asuka at the beginning of
Dir Cut 24 to tell her about Kaji) during the timeline of the series.
The scene is extremely surreal. The cut of the spilled coffee pot is
inserted into the Director's Cut of episode 24 but is used in a
completely different context (Asuka's realization to Kaji is not coming
back). 

Further - consider the dialgue:

Shinji: 
Asuka, help me! You're... you're the only one that can! 

Asuka: 
Liar... 
To you, anybody will do! 
You're afraid of Misato and the First... and of your mother and father,
too! 

Shinji: Asuka... 

Asuka: 
You're only using me as an escape - because that's the easiest way not
to get hurt! 

Shinji: 
Asuka, help me! 

Asuka: 
Because that's the easiest way not to get hurt! 

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This sounds almost like a direct response to Shinji's dialogue at the
beginning of Air. 
Shinji: 
I... I'm scared of both Misato and Ayanami... 
Help me... Help me, Asuka. 


Afterall, "Asuka" had just confronted Shinji about it moments before...
Asuka: 
Idiot! I 'know' about your jerk-off fantasies of me. 
Do it again like usual... I'll even stand here and watch. 

-brendan