ramandu1@aol.comnojunk (Ramandu) wrote in message news:<20030812160857.00793.00001198@mb-m25.aol.com>...
> zedizdead wrote...
> 
> >You're definitely on the the right track, tho I should point out that
> >Misato (and Ritsuko, for that matter) is obviously included in Third
> >Impact in both the TV and movie endings. ( Which only stands to
> >reason, considering that both the TV and movie endings are essentially
> >the same.) The fact that Misato got blown to bits is entirely
> >irrelevant to the fate of her soul. It is a obvious correlary to the
> >whole soul/ AT Field premise, that people's souls linger around after
> >they die, otherwise no soul > no AT Field > people would liquify as
> >soon as they die. During TI, we see Rei come to gather the souls of
> >both the living (Maya, Fuyutsuki, and the others), and the recently
> >deceased (Ritsuko, Misato, and all the others killed in the battle in
> >ep25'. Once TI is underway, we see and hear Misato:
> >
> 
> [This message is a duplicate.  Having problems with my news server; sorry if
> this posts twice.]
> 
> So you think that Misato, Ritsuko, and others whose bodies died immediately
> pre-Third Impact can come back too?  How about those who died a long time
> before?  Where do people's spirits go after the body is destroyed and the AT
> field leaves?  Heaven?  The Chamber of Guff?  Can *they* come back?
> 
> You know, just when you think you have a handle on what's going on in EoE,
> someone like you comes along and shakes my confidence....  O.O
> 
> --R--
I'm suprised that anyone is suprised by the idea of Misato coming
back; that her soul is still around post Third Impact in both the TV
eps25-26, and in EoE (ep26') should be obvious to anyone.  There is no
indication at all, in EoE, that any distinction is made between the
ultimate fate of those who died immediately before TI, and those, like
Maya and the others, who lost their physical form while alive and
conscious.
As for the question of how long somone can be dead before their soul
is 'irretreivable' by Rei and TI, that is an ambiguous, basically
unanswerable point; I can only point out that Misato and Ritsuko were
dead for only about ten minutes or so before TI, but they are
certainly included, and, if you go by the TV ending, Kaji, who has
been dead for pehaps a month before TI, seems to be around during
Instrumentality (and his inclusion in this pic from ep26':
 http://homepage.mac.com/csf2860/Kissing_sux/evangelion025.jpg
at the crucial moment that Shinji admits that "Still... I want to meet
them again, because I believe my feelings at that time were real",
seems to imply that he's eligible to come back too).
Of course, you seem to be disregarding the rather crucial point that
Asuka seemed to be just as 'dead' as Misato, and so, the fact that she
comes back certainly does seem to me to settle, in the affirmative,
the question of whether people who 'died' before TI can come back...