"Richard Qunt" <r.c.qunt@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bi64rp$hbi$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
> "Amani" <amani@charter.net> wrote in message
> news:vkctn1peubpr26@corp.supernews.com...
> > If you want to take advantage of young teenage girls who are so lost in
> the
> > world they don't know any better, go ahead. That's on your morals.
>
> Maybe the Japanese like to credit young women with much more inteligence
> than you do?
>
> > One, she is not a direct clone of Yui. She has a mixture of Yui's DNA
and
> > Angel DNA.
>
> No, she is has Yui's DNA and the SOUL of an Angel. Physically she is
totally
> human.
>
> > Two, having a clone of something else does not mean they are the
> > same age. It means they have the same DNA. But Rei IS 14, because she
has
> > been alive for 14 years. Are you going to say in Fuyuutsuki's flashback
> > episode, that Rei wasn't REALLY under ten, because she's a clone of Yui?
>
> Rei had to have been created after Yui's death in 2004. There is no proof
> that she was around prior to this. If the first Rei had not been killed in
> 2010, she would be a maximum of 11 years old in human years at the time of
> the series. The Rei we see in the series is 5 years old (though she could
> also be 11 if the 'ReiQuarium' was created along with Rei I in 2004). Rei
II
> clearly has the body of a fully-grown woman (NOT an 11 or 14 year old
girl),
> meaning that Gendo has the ability to create clones of whatever physical
age
> he wishes. The age given to her is just a cover story.
>
> > Where are the examples of Rei's maturity? If anything, she knows nothing
> > about emotions. I'm not saying she's an immature ditz, I'm saying that
her
> > quiet nature can't be taken as proof of her maturity. She's very
confused
> > and, in a way, naive.
>
> She is smart enough to see through Asuka's bitching and blustering and
> mature enough not to rise to it. She is perceptive enough to know the best
> way to deal with the annoying, whiny redhead - ripping her apart often
> without uttering more than a word.
>
> > Asuka has major emotional problems, herself. But most of the characters
in
> > NGE are pretty immature.
> >
> > And then PLEASE give me an example of Rei's superior intelligence. We
HAVE
> > proof of Asuka's: she's 14 and she's already been through college.
That's
> > pretty damn good.
>
> Her graduating college is proof that she can remember and regurgitate the
> limited range of learned facts nescessary to pass the final exams, not of
> true intelligence.
>
> > Am I saying Rei's stupid? No. I'm saying we don't really
> > have proof of what level of intelligence she has. Just because the
> > Rei-obsessees take every opportunity to bash Asuka and take a billion
> > meanings from Rei's silences that mostly involve her being the most
> mature,
> > intelligent, sex-obsessed character ever, doesn't mean it has even the
> > slightest shred of evidence in the series.
>
> Listen to the few comments that Rei makes about the nature of her own
life,
> humanity and existence. She is very, very perceptive - she sits, she
thinks,
> she notices things. Perhaps she doesn't understand how it applies to
> herself, but she has a very good knowledge of what makes the people around
> her tick, how their emotions interact and the problems that this causes.
She
> is above the childish bickering that Shinji and Asuka get involved in and
> has a true sense of duty and responsibility.
>
> If Rei were to write a book, I would read it.
>
> As for sex, I can't see Rei being at all inhibited. Her reaction to
Shinji's
> accidental groping shows us that she does not find her own body dirty or
> shameful. She's not sex crazed and isn't the sort of girl to jump on
> anything with a penis, but I doubt she'd have any hang-ups about it at
all,
> if she met the right person.
>
> > Rei is a lost, emotionally confused, naive, broken down girl who wants
to
> > die but the God of her universe won't let her. She's an excellent
> character
> > worthy of compassion and sympathy, but don't give her amazing traits
that
> > there's no proof of.
>
> She doesn't have the life experience, but she has the smarts to overcome
her
> own shortcomings - if she were given enough time in the series to do so.
> Unfortunately her death and Third Impact got in the way just as she was
> beginning to figure herself out.
>
> Can you prove that Asuka is anything other than a whiny, immature little
> bitch who enjoys hurting and using other people to boost her own ego? The
> girl is an attention-seeking leech. If anything, I'd say that Rei was the
> emotionally stable one...
>
>

Auska is an emotionlly frail little girl, oh and she is also a filthy
skank!!

Nyah

Go Rei!!