[EVA][EOE] EVA trivia

[Brendan Jamieson]

"Frank R. Masi" wrote:
>You reminded me of a question I had waaay back when this image first
>circulated throughout the list. Eva construction. This particular 
>cloning image would suggest that Unit 01 is fully biological with the 
>exception of the control/system apparatus. 

Which is why I wasn't too big on the idea we were seeing Eva-01 growing
from Lilith (or, why I liked the idea of it being Adam-Lilith). There's
not much in the series to lead one to believe this is how Eva's are
"cloned" from their sources. As you say, the test Eva we see in episode
21 isn't being constructed this way...

>Could one think that the Adam-series have more man-made content 

I suppose that's what we're supposed to think (or, more likely - we're
not supposed to think anything :P)

>or are they all the same, and the Eva-01-from-Lilith clone sequence is just one 
>of those "cool" images thrown in rest-of-the-series-be-damned?

Might as well be - the image doesn't really change much in the grand
scheme of things.

Ebj wrote:
>There still hasn't been a logical explanation for the interruption in the
>panning that happens in the mid section of the sequence, something that leads to
>think that the two figures are in different places...

I still think this is more of an aesthetics issue than anything else
(the room looks almost to have a fish-eye lens look to it). I don't see
any reason to believe the two are in other rooms - based on Lilith
having an elongated torso lying nailed to the cross and Eva-01 having
the same lying at what very much appears to be the bottom end of a
cross... 

The bigger question is: Why doesn't Lilith have an arm? :P
(Hmm.. Didn't Rei lose her right arm in EoE, too?)

-brendan
"Cloned? How about *grown*?"