"Frank White" <fwhite*NOSPAM*@colfax.com> wrote in message
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> In article <Xns951BE9C3EF98BTL@212.67.96.135>, thm727@hotmail.com says...
> >
> >
> >        Apologies for asking this, but I'm writing a fic that goes over
some
> >of the action in Ep. 1, and something struck me as incongruous. When
Misato
> >is told that Shinji has to pilot Unit 01, she's shocked. But she already
> >knows certain things; she knows that Shinji is the Third Children (sic) -
> >she identifies him as such when she meets Ritsuko in the base; she knows
> >that Rei's unfit to pilot, and that Asuka's not around. My question is
> >this; why's she shocked? Did she think that Ritsuko would pull something
> >off at the last minute? Did she just not put the pieces together?
> >
> >        - Between_the_Lines
>
> I think the problem isn't that Misato didn't know Shinji was going
> to be the pilot; the problem is, she didn't expect him to be the
> pilot RIGHT NOW.  Rei took seven months to synch with EVA-00, after
> all.  Putting Shinji in the seat of EVA-01 for the first time and
> then throwing him at the Angel seconds later, expecting him to
> somehow be able to fight, would appear to be a formula for disaster.
>
> And it almost was.
>
> Also, Misato had been out of the loop while she was picking up
> Shinji.  She knew the Angel had been hit with an N2 mine; she
> didn't know how extremely fast it was recovering, that it had
> started moving again and they only had minutes to do something,
> OR that there was nothing left to throw at it except an EVA.
>
> (And given how fast we find out Rei can heal, a bit of confusion
> as to whether she's still incapacited or not was understandable.)
>
> FW

...yeah, what Frank said. ;)

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