Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!ebi!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newshosting.com!news-xfer1.atl.newshosting.com!204.186.200.232.MISMATCH!ptdnetT!newsgateT.ptd.net!ptdnetS!newsgate.ptd.net!nnrp1.ptd.net.POSTED!27b6d433!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3DAD8850.7156D643@ptd.net> From: "J.C. Bengtson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: japan.anime.evangelion Subject: Delurking and some thoughts.. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 59 Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:45:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.186.210.196 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ptd.net X-Trace: nnrp1.ptd.net 1034783104 204.186.210.196 (Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:45:04 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:45:04 EDT Organization: PenTeleData http://www.ptd.net Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org japan.anime.evangelion:2964 Greetings all.. I've been lurking here for a while now, and my recent viewing (and subsequent re-viewings) of the Evangelion movies have prompted me to actually post something. For reference, I've seen the whole series in both Japanese and English at least thrice, and while I can't claim to have seen it when it was new, I did make sure to make the trips to Suncoast to purchase each DVD upon it's domestic release within a day or two (movies included). Anyways, the movies have naturally caused my interest in the series to peak, and I've been doing a lot of reading on various groups, forums and sites, garnering what information I can. As expected with something like Eva, however, there's still many questions that remain unanswered, and perhaps I could bring up one particular one while I'm at it.. -- If the Eva's possess souls, whose are in each one? Well, we know that Shinji and Asuka's mothers are in EVA-01 and EVA-02 respectively, and it's almost certain that Naoko Akagi is in EVA-00 (besides the chalk outline and blood, we never see the aftermath of her death).. but what about the others? EVA-04 never had any screentime as far as I know, seeing as how it blew up on activation and all, and EVA-03 was possessed by an Angel.. heck, we never even saw Toji in the entry plug while it was active, so I can't even say for certain who would be in there. We know from one of the earliest episodes (3 & 4) that Kensuke doesn't have a mother.. and from the way Toji speaks similarly, he probably doesn't either. And it's later learned that all the children in class 2-A are candidates for Eva piloting.. was Toji's mother in EVA-03 then? If so, since when did he ever have a connection to NERV / SEELE prior to being "chosen"? The fact that EVA-03 and EVA-04 were being built in the United States instead of Japan complicates things even further.. THEN AGAIN, we never see or hear any mention of EVA-03 using or generating an AT Field at all, and if it lacked a soul, that'd certainly make it easy to possess since there wouldn't be any opposing force. That coincidentally happens to be the reason that Tabris.. err, Kaworu was able to control EVA-02 when Asuka went comatose.. there was no willpower to resist him. But then on the other hand, what the heck good would an Evangelion be if it didn't have it's most powerful offensive and defensive weapon, the AT Field? They built the thing just so it could go berserk? That seems unlikely.. Is ignorance bliss, or does anyone else have thoughts on this? I won't even get started on ideas for the Mass Production Units.. ;P Whew, that was a long way to delurk, huh? -- J.C. Bengtson - "Makoru" * http://home.ptd.net/~golbez * http://sailorscout.redversusblue.com