Lion-O wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Been reading this group for the past days now and I guess its about time
> to dump something in here..

Welcome to the group. Place can always use more new blood (only been 
here 6 months or so myself).

> I also wonder if [Asuka] didn't have much more influence in the whole 3rd
> impact than most people realize..  I will probably have to watch EoE and
> the last two episodes some more times but I keep wondering if Shinji's
> driving motivation for the things he did wasn't actually Asuka's doing..

Well, it seems pretty clear that Asuka is involved to me, but I wouldn't 
call it a mind-link or anything of the sort. I think it's more that 
Shinji's decision to finally manifest his true feelings to her, and the 
fact that she, more than Rei or Misato or anyone else, is foremost in 
his mind, that makes him do the things he does. I don't really see her 
having much of an active role in Third Impact, but rather a reactionary 
one based on Shinji's advances towards her.

Clear as mud.
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