On 6 Jul 2003 23:04:20 GMT, THM <thm727@hotmail.com> wrote:

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>            This may be a really stupid question, but I have to ask it 
>nonetheless. In episode 2, there's a part where Gendou is talking to 
>several men around a holographic 'table', at the head of which is Lorenz 
>Kihl; they talk about investments and the HCP, after a fashion. Is this 
>SEELE, or somebody else? It's just that from what I've seen and read, SEELE 
>members are usually shown as anonymous monoliths. There were only four/five 
>of them, which is something that gave me pause, 'cause SEELE has twelve 
>members.

If you watch the Director's Cut of Ep24, there are actually *15*
members of SEELE in the scene where they are talking to Kaworu. I have
no idea why this is so - perhaps only the 12 senior members are
present at the important meetings with Gendo...

>It's just that I find it odd that if that is part of SEELE, that 
>they would then use the monoliths, since the audience already know who 
>(some of) them are. 
>            Thanks in advance to anyone who takes pity on me! ^_^


I'm sure that if I were to think hard enough then I would be able to
think up a reason for this which makes sense in terms of the
storyline, but this would be overrationalizing it.

The simple truth is that GAINAX were running out of money towards the
end of the series (notice the steadily dropping cel count in the last
six episodes). They used the monoliths in order to avoid having to
animate the individual members of the committee...
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