Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.freenet.de!194.168.222.61.MISMATCH!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep1-win.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Lord Merc" Newsgroups: japan.anime.evangelion References: <1061441373.8741.0@dyke.uk.clara.net> Subject: Re: Is Rei attracted to Gendo? Lines: 122 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: <5wF1b.73$M23.34935@newsfep1-win.server.ntli.net> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 23:31:01 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.100.194.29 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep1-win.server.ntli.net 1061627009 81.100.194.29 (Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:23:29 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:23:29 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org japan.anime.evangelion:6313 "Richard Qunt" wrote in message news:bi64rp$hbi$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk... > "Amani" wrote in message > news:vkctn1peubpr26@corp.supernews.com... > > If you want to take advantage of young teenage girls who are so lost in > the > > world they don't know any better, go ahead. That's on your morals. > > Maybe the Japanese like to credit young women with much more inteligence > than you do? > > > One, she is not a direct clone of Yui. She has a mixture of Yui's DNA and > > Angel DNA. > > No, she is has Yui's DNA and the SOUL of an Angel. Physically she is totally > human. > > > Two, having a clone of something else does not mean they are the > > same age. It means they have the same DNA. But Rei IS 14, because she has > > been alive for 14 years. Are you going to say in Fuyuutsuki's flashback > > episode, that Rei wasn't REALLY under ten, because she's a clone of Yui? > > Rei had to have been created after Yui's death in 2004. There is no proof > that she was around prior to this. If the first Rei had not been killed in > 2010, she would be a maximum of 11 years old in human years at the time of > the series. The Rei we see in the series is 5 years old (though she could > also be 11 if the 'ReiQuarium' was created along with Rei I in 2004). Rei II > clearly has the body of a fully-grown woman (NOT an 11 or 14 year old girl), > meaning that Gendo has the ability to create clones of whatever physical age > he wishes. The age given to her is just a cover story. > > > Where are the examples of Rei's maturity? If anything, she knows nothing > > about emotions. I'm not saying she's an immature ditz, I'm saying that her > > quiet nature can't be taken as proof of her maturity. She's very confused > > and, in a way, naive. > > She is smart enough to see through Asuka's bitching and blustering and > mature enough not to rise to it. She is perceptive enough to know the best > way to deal with the annoying, whiny redhead - ripping her apart often > without uttering more than a word. > > > Asuka has major emotional problems, herself. But most of the characters in > > NGE are pretty immature. > > > > And then PLEASE give me an example of Rei's superior intelligence. We HAVE > > proof of Asuka's: she's 14 and she's already been through college. That's > > pretty damn good. > > Her graduating college is proof that she can remember and regurgitate the > limited range of learned facts nescessary to pass the final exams, not of > true intelligence. > > > Am I saying Rei's stupid? No. I'm saying we don't really > > have proof of what level of intelligence she has. Just because the > > Rei-obsessees take every opportunity to bash Asuka and take a billion > > meanings from Rei's silences that mostly involve her being the most > mature, > > intelligent, sex-obsessed character ever, doesn't mean it has even the > > slightest shred of evidence in the series. > > Listen to the few comments that Rei makes about the nature of her own life, > humanity and existence. She is very, very perceptive - she sits, she thinks, > she notices things. Perhaps she doesn't understand how it applies to > herself, but she has a very good knowledge of what makes the people around > her tick, how their emotions interact and the problems that this causes. She > is above the childish bickering that Shinji and Asuka get involved in and > has a true sense of duty and responsibility. > > If Rei were to write a book, I would read it. > > As for sex, I can't see Rei being at all inhibited. Her reaction to Shinji's > accidental groping shows us that she does not find her own body dirty or > shameful. She's not sex crazed and isn't the sort of girl to jump on > anything with a penis, but I doubt she'd have any hang-ups about it at all, > if she met the right person. > > > Rei is a lost, emotionally confused, naive, broken down girl who wants to > > die but the God of her universe won't let her. She's an excellent > character > > worthy of compassion and sympathy, but don't give her amazing traits that > > there's no proof of. > > She doesn't have the life experience, but she has the smarts to overcome her > own shortcomings - if she were given enough time in the series to do so. > Unfortunately her death and Third Impact got in the way just as she was > beginning to figure herself out. > > Can you prove that Asuka is anything other than a whiny, immature little > bitch who enjoys hurting and using other people to boost her own ego? The > girl is an attention-seeking leech. If anything, I'd say that Rei was the > emotionally stable one... > > Auska is an emotionlly frail little girl, oh and she is also a filthy skank!! Nyah Go Rei!!