"ten/mark" <tenchsama@cox.net> wrote in message
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> LOL- that's what makes this a great series - layers beyond layers
>
> It's not  that Misato and Yui are alive - they are in a state where they
> have that potential - all people do (hopefully penguins too!). Shinji's
> rejection of Human Instrumentality in Third Impact means that there is no
> set design for the human race. Gendo, Seele, etc. all were looking to mold
> the future - these are arrogant people, taking it upon themselves to
decide
> the future for all people!. Since Shinji is at the core of Third impact,
the
> design is up to him - (remember Shinji is extremely depressed - he almost
> chooses death and an end to all mankind to avoid lonliness and pain).
> However, in the end he creates "choice". Yui and the others can return
> (according to Rei), if they choose to - it's an open ended future - each
> person can create choose life if they desire but they have to be willing
to
> accept an uncertain, unplanned existence - to choose life will mean the
> possibility (a certainty!) of pain, loneliness, etc. I don't think Yui
will
> choose to live again - you see her floating away from Shinji near the end
of
> Third Impact - I think Shinji understands that this is her farewell to him
> (just my opinion).
>
> Eva 1 - this has always troubled me. If I undwerstand Yui, Eva 1 has
> transended existence and at some level becomes the Noah's ark that Lorrenz
> imagined. but instead of asending to higher plain of existence (heaven),
Eva
> 1 moves through space carrying the souls of human race - its a form of
> imortality for the race- Eva 1 and the memory/souls of man will exist
> forever.

I was under the impression Unit-01 had only the soul of Yui inside while
floating through the universe, after all it is mentioned that "Although it
will be very lonely, it will go on living as an everlasting reminder of the
existance of humans" or something to that effect.

cOwMoO