"Between_the_Lines" <thm727@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>     Apologies for asking this, but I'm writing a fic that goes over some
> of the action in Ep. 1, and something struck me as incongruous. When
Misato
> is told that Shinji has to pilot Unit 01, she's shocked. But she already
> knows certain things; she knows that Shinji is the Third Children (sic) -
> she identifies him as such when she meets Ritsuko in the base; she knows
> that Rei's unfit to pilot, and that Asuka's not around. My question is
> this; why's she shocked? Did she think that Ritsuko would pull something
> off at the last minute? Did she just not put the pieces together?

I thought it was because he had just gotten there, and have had no time to
train...

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