Memphis Egyptologist

I just wonder, if given more time would the TV series writers have given more feelings to Rei (II-III)? She did save Shinji, but the last vision in her mind was Gendo. In the manga, Asuka teases Shinji about being attracted to Rei, and he states that its not a feeling of like but that it is a feeling similar to some part of him that had been taken away. Once one considers who and what Rei is, Asuka is the only one to turn to unless Shinji goes both ways .

Yup, I always saw Asuka and Shinji as two mixed up people who lost their mothers and eventually would end up together. At least in the series, Shinji told Rei that she does things just as a mother would like when they were cleaning school. After he found out Rei was a clone, things changed. I think Anno said his characters essentially revolve around relationships within their hearts and the longing within their hearts for relationships. I always wonder if the scene of Asuka and Shinji in bed together in EOE where she berates his "peformance" was just part of the head trip of Third Impact or based on something else . As such, Evangelion was the first series that ever made me think about the characters and not the mecha.

Dang, Anubis said what I was going to say! Anyway, Shinji and Asuka came back and now have to prepare for the others who want to come back. EOE is like Natural Born Killers in that one wonders what the staff was taking when they wrote and planned the script. So much of the images are so compelling, its best to just say wow! and rewatch it a bit later.

Sadamoto is at least following the same events but clarifying them in a more precise manner as with Kaji's death and Asuka's breakdown. Question remains is what he has planned for Rei II and Third Impact. I thought Naoko Akagi jumped and splatted herself over the Magi after her encounter with Rei (I)

Golden Arms, Well said! I always took that scene where Misato got her gun and ID back as the first step that Misato realized Kaji was a dead man in SEELE and NERV's eyes. Then, I always took the cut to Kaji as meaning it was going on at the same time Misato was getting her things back. Therefore, I found it a bit odd after I became active on the Internet that people were saying Misato killed Kaji. There wasn't enough time for Misato to track down Kaji to supposedly kill him based on the way the animation was cut together. Kaji entrusted his work to Misato, and Misato knew that the phone message meant it was up to her to use it.

I was wondering, In the DYRL version of the Macross saga, did the Zentradi destroy Earth immediately after the SDF-1 folded or did Bodolza's fleet fold to Earth after the Breetai fleet gave chase to the Macross and lay it to waste? The Saturn game just shows a small bombardment of South Ataria island and nothing else.

Nope, Misato got upset because she realized that that message meant Kaji was not coming back. Why would Kaji have given Misato the capsule on his research into SEELE and NERV if he could not trust her completely? Again, if Misato had killed Kaji, as pointed out on the Evaotaku page, that would have appeared in the Complementation process of the final episodes.

Misato did not kill Kaji! Go to EVA Otaku and look at the FAQ. There, using the Japanese Filmbooks as evidence, Japanese director Hideaki Anno states that SEELE or NERV intelligence killed Kaji not Misato. In the manga, a uniformed, white-gloved individual with a different type of gun than Misato's killed Kaji. Misato loved Kaji too much to go as far as killing him. Someone else did.