"Sakaki" <Alphonse@work.com> wrote in message
news:Xns93F8BAEA23E8EAlphonseworkcom@204.127.199.17...
> fwhite*NOSPAM*@colfax.com (Frank White) wrote in
> news:bk3apc$1ofu$2@news.fsr.net:
>
> > In article <Xns93F6E7E672080Alphonseworkcom@204.127.199.17>,
> > Alphonse@work.com says...
> >>
> >>Pharsti <pharsti11@coldmail.com> wrote in
> >>news:Xns93F0A5C5A5EE3pharsti11hotmailcom@212.115.192.188:
> >>
> >>> Daniel Rudy <dcrudy@invalid.pacbell.nospam.net.0123456789> wrote in
> >>> news:xXW6b.12385$kq6.7233@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com:
> >>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Did anyone else ever notice that the water she's lying in is red?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/bsl/bath.jpg
> >>>>
> >>>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> Looking closely, I can see that too, but why on earth would the
> >>> bottom of a tub be red? I forgot to mention though that this is only
> >>> visible in the DC version of the episode, the scene was a lot darker
> >>> in the original series, and there wasn't any red visible. So why
> >>> would they change it and make it a red color, just to confuse us?
> >>
> >>Rust. It is a metal tub, most likely cast iron, and the building it is
> > in
> >>has no roof. So it has been exposed to the elements, quite likely for
> > some
> >>time, and rain water sitting in the bottom of the tub over time would
> > cause
> >>it to rust.
> >
> > Blood makes more sense...
> >
> > FW
> >
>
> Possibly; but the question was why would a tub bottom be red, rust would
> do that, blood would make the water red not the bottom. Unless it was
> old blood left to dry there, but that would be more brown than red. ;)
>

Again, the question remains as to how long Asuka had been sitting there in
the tub, and just what her method of suicide was. Without any timeframe, we
can't really say if she had  slit her wrists, or was just going to die of
exposure and starvation. Again, yet another of Anno's attempts to make folks
like us debate 'till we're blue in the face.

                                        Vaughn L. Porter
                                         We need proof, not leads!