Summary
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don't get it after watching all the episodies + death and rebirth + the end
of evangelion. And why is shinji such a wimp?
Thanks
vagrant
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Its actually quite hard to explain...I've seen it a few times through the
series and I don't quite get everything. Its more fun to come up with your
own answers though...Sorry for no help :]
[vagrant]
Frank White
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>Can someone point me a summary or explaination of Evangelion, I totally
>don't get it after watching all the episodies + death and rebirth + the
end
>of evangelion.
There is no explaination for Evangelion.
Take drugs before watching. It will help.
> And why is shinji such a wimp?
Think of it this way. Shinji and Asuka are opposite sides
of the same coin. They both suffer tremendous loss and
isolation, and both are badly warped as a result. But
while Asuka compensates by becoming a overachieving,
ego-centric she-tiger, Shinji tries to cope by reducing
himself to his barest personality components.
Considering Asuka was crumbling even before the Angels
did their job on her, and Shinji was still functioning -
sort of - afterward. you have to assume he may have
chosen the right (or at least a righter) path.
FW
Mr.Mef
We have big robots......
..............then everyone on earth all died.
Seriously though I started watching it years and years ago on shitty
reception on a crappy tv every saturday. It warped my life forever. I'm
still figuring it all out, it took me a while to even realise there was such
a great religious connection (up until I watched EoE anyway) and I still
watch the series I have on DVD and EoE and its still the best part of my
life.
- Mef
James M
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wanting to jump out a high window!
keep checking through this group. Disaster has links to several good faqs in
his signature lines. I don't think anyone fully understands Evangeon ,but
you can at least get the common answers.
Stuart Nealon
experiences i have ever had. It is entertaining, thought provoking,
confusing as Hell however it is still ingenius. Having been watching it for
over a year i can barely get a grasp of it but what I can understand has
inspired and changed me.... even if i can't understand it all. I am far more
interested in Theology and Philosophy because of Eva.
Let me leave you with a quoth that summarises Eva for me
"To watch N.G.E is an exercise in courage. To understand N.G.E is example of
Madness. To experience N.G.E is to alter the body, mind and S2 Engine in us
all, thoes lucky few who have watched, understood and experienced"
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BC
White) wrote:
everyone's got their own interpretation of NGE.
Asuka crumbled near the end because she expected to come out on top, to be
the best of everything, to win every fight and confrontation. She not
only got defeated by the angels, but in her eyes by Shinji as well. She
thought she was the best, and that she had to be tough and strong to
survive by herself, that she don't need anyone, that she can go on without
her mother... that she can fight her own battles and not have to be
rescued by Shinji. But after continual defeat she had to face the facts -
that she wasn't as tough and invincible as she thought she was. That
realisation crushed her will completely.
Shinji thinks of himself as being weak and useless, and feels that nothing
he does matters. He hates pain - pain of all kinds, but especially that
of not being accepted, of being hated and rejected. But in some ways
defeat and pain and sorrow doesn't really bother him since in his mind,
even before an confrontation's begun he has already lost. In his mind he
is weak. He is pathetic. No one likes him. No one approves of him...
It is easier for him to think that way then to try and be strong. He is
running away from all the hard roads in life, taking all the easy roads.
In Asuka's mind the world is filled with people, people who all loves her,
admires her and praises her. In Shinji's mind he is all alone in a world
full of strangers who hates or ignores him, in his mind he is lowly,
cowardly, unworthy. He is used to being alone so that when the world
around him crumbles, and he finds myself becoming more and more alone he
was still able to function, where as Asuka wasn't used to that feeling and
was unable to cope.
Shinji crumbles later on after meeting Kowru, whom he thought of not as an
angel, but as a kindred spirit. Shinji longs for words like "I love you"
from people around him is whole life, especailly from his father. All he
ever wanted was to be loved and appreciated, but he has always been
alone. Kowru was probably the only person Shinji ever felt truly open and
comfortable with, and that Kowru was the only one around who truly
understands him and apprecaites him for who he is. Shinji realises that
killing angels earns him appreciation from the people around him, so he
keeps on doing it time and again. But when he realises that Kowru was an
angel, and when he was forced to kill him... it was just too much for him
to bear...
sorry, I forgot why I'm writing, so I'll stop now.
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BC
An indepth summary's pretty much impossible (well, not true, but there's
just soooo much to NGE).
<=[BC]=>
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Caitlin Thompson
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> but how do u explain unit 1 being so much better than the other evas?
I haven't seen but 4 episodes, but I think it may have something to do with
the power inside Shinji's soul... or something.
Jonathan Ford
we see the EVA's hand move to protect Shinji in episode one. Shinji's mother
was killed in an EVA accident (Testing unit 01 i think). As far as i know,
she was absorbed into Unit 01 (like Shinji when he achieves the 400% ratio).
They tried to remove her, but couldn't keep her alive in the process.
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> From what i read on the net, EVA-01 has Shinji's mother's soul. That's why
> we see the EVA's hand move to protect Shinji in episode one. Shinji's
mother
> was killed in an EVA accident (Testing unit 01 i think). As far as i know,
> she was absorbed into Unit 01 (like Shinji when he achieves the 400%
ratio).
> They tried to remove her, but couldn't keep her alive in the process.
Ikari Yui wasn't killed. She decided on her own to stay inside Eva-01.
Shinji could've decided likewise as well, and wouldn't have been recovered,
but he elected to go back to the real world where he suffered so much.
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some sort of conflict. I'd laugh if Yui was so sick of being 01 that she
took off in Shinjis body and left the whiney little bastard stuck in the
biomech.
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That's a damn good question for which I'm sure the writers will BS their way
through. Ritsuko will deliver the lines, of course.
Jonathan Ford
to extract Shinji, they say that he has to come out by his own will, and
that they can't force him to leave Unit 01. They learned this by trying to
extract Shinji's mother by force after she was absorbed by EVA 01. With her
body destroyed, only her soul remained inside EVA 01 (I believe EVA 01
either had no soul of it's own, or that her soul was dominant over EVA 01's
own soul.).
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Lave Voronov
repeatedly lashed out at Gendou, Ritsuko and Rei.
Eva01 contained the soul of Yui Ikari, and embraced Shinji hence his high
synch ratings, and could explain why Rei was never really able to synch with
Eva01, the soul and the body together again....
And somehow, after her suicide, Asukas mothers soul was trapped inside of
Eva02, and this explains Asukas low synch ratings when she becomes depressed
over her mother.
Michael Wignall
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> Eva00 contained the trapped soul of Dr Akagi, which is why
> this Eva repeatedly lashed out at Gendou, Ritsuko and Rei.
I disagree.
Ritsuko states in episode 14 that she was the target of the Eva,
"without a doubt", not Rei or Gendou.
Also Naoko being in there doesn't explain the cross compatibility
between Evas 00 and 01.
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