Somewhere around the time of 09/07/2003 03:18, the world stopped and
listened as Pharsti contributed this to humanity:

> csf2860@mac.com (zedizdead) wrote in message news:<cf1e5c98.0309062113.6193869@posting.google.com>...
> 
>>"Rogue Noir" <Rogue@Noir.com> wrote in message news:<yUq6b.11811$U%4.570@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com>...
>>
>>>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...
> 
> 
> 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.

> 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...

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.
-- 
Daniel Rudy

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