[EVA] Is that the real Asuka

[Ebj]

> >It was awful. Ok, the nine "production EVA" units _were_ foreshadowed,
> >as were their S2 cores,

Core and S2 Kikan are NOT the same thing. There is nothing suggesting otherwise.

>  but *copies* of the Lance? No way.

Irrelevant.

> Regeneration?
> >Where the hell did that come from?

>From Episode 2, where you see Eva-01 regenerating. And, from episodes 19-20
where we learn that the S2 Kikan gives infinite power to an Eva.

> Makes you wonder why they were holding back with the mass-production
> EVA's the whole time. You'd think it would have been safer to use
> them directly to stop the Angels and then initiate Third Impact in
> a more controlled fashion.

They were not yet completed. LOOK at the show.

> Those EVA's were a hell of a lot more advanced than the existing
> EVA's

Only because they had wings, an S2 Kikan, and drooled all around?

> but I would point out that Unit-01 regenerate in the second
> episode. Sure, it was a broken arm, not a severed torso or gouged
> face or anything else like Asuka did, but the arm did regenerate.
> :)

It also regenerated after the not-so-irrelevant damage dealt by Zeruel.

> As for the lances, we really don't know what sort of technology is
> involved there. It does seem rather high tech, though.

It is irrelevant, like many of the things that are left unsaid and that people
still try to find an unbacked-up answer for.

> I think the ending as is remains very powerful but unfocused. If
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> and the apparant death of all humankind as a result just seems wasted.

Death of all humankind as a result of the abortion of the process?! Where does
this consequentiality come for?!

> Right. I didn't really understand the whole point of it.

Yes, this is evident by now.

> There was the assumption that this was a big fuck you to the fans.

Sez you and some websites.

> Shinji's behavior in the film was despicable and I never could fathom
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> human being? What sort of point is Anno trying to make?

The point is, he's NOT an hero and was never meant to be. He's the main aspect
of Anno himself, as are most other characters (when they don't represent
important figures in his life).

> Do you mean continuations within the context of the nasty Third Impact
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> positive end and a meaning.

Are you sure they don't come from people who could not accept that they didn't
get a preformatted answer at the end? For that's precisely the reason the
authors say they made it that way.

> (Yeah, positive or negative third impact, it's just a matter of opinion.
> You have yours, I have mine.)

As I said, when this does not go against the declared intentions of the authors.


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