Somewhere around the time of 09/08/2003 01:18, the world stopped and
listened as Daniel Rudy contributed this to humanity:

> Somewhere around the time of 09/07/2003 03:18, the world stopped and
> listened as Pharsti contributed this to humanity:
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>>csf2860@mac.com (zedizdead) wrote in message news:<cf1e5c98.0309062113.6193869@posting.google.com>...
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>>>"Rogue Noir" <Rogue@Noir.com> wrote in message news:<yUq6b.11811$U%4.570@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com>...
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>>>>I've been puzzled by this scene where Asuka is in this bathtub with dirty
>>>>water and she seems pretty depressed..  then a shadow of a man shows up at
>>>>the right..  who is that man?  I'm guessing Kaji..  Note that this isn't in
>>>>Misato's bathroom.
>>>
>>>In the Director's Cut of ep24, it is made clear that what caused Asuka
>>>to be in in the basically suicidal state we see her in in this scene,
>>>was finding out (from Shinji) that Kaji is dead.  Apparently Asuka
>>>really was in love with Kaji, and the news of his death (on top of
>>>everything else that has happened to her) puts her into a tailspin of
>>>despair that damn near kills her.  She's in that bathtub somewhere in
>>>the ruins of Tokyo 3 because she pretty much has sought a hole in
>>>which to crawl away and die.  The NERV security guys find her and take
>>>her to hospital, but she is so far gone that she ends up in a coma,
>>>which is her status at the start of EoE...
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>>Did anyone else ever notice that the water she's lying in is red?
>>
>>http://people.zeelandnet.nl/bsl/bath.jpg
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> Actually, that looks like the bottom of the tub.  The actual water
> around her legs is a brownish color when compared to her skin color.
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>>I always assumed she slit her wrist in that scene. Why else would the
>>Nerv agents choose that time to come crashing in? Since in ep. 23,
>>Gendo gave the order to just watch the Children but not take any
>>action, and I doubt they'd actually lose track of her for an entire
>>week. To support that, in the hospital at the beginning of EoE,
>>Asuka's left wrist is bandaged...
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> Didn't notice that.  Maybe she did, maybe she didn't...I need to look
> myself, but what arm is the IV in?  Standard hospital procedure is to
> usually banage the area where the IV is, and that it is usually right
> around the wrist.

Sorry about replying to my own post, but I just reviewed the infamous
room 303 scene in EoE.  Only 1 wrist is bandaged, and on the blowup, I
can clearly (blurry) see that the side that is bandaged is the one with
the IV.  In fact, I can see the IV going into the bandages.

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Daniel Rudy

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