'Disaster' <disaster@disfanfic.net> wrote in message news:<ujia1v92j6vjb8@corp.supernews.com>...
> 'Vaughn L.Porter' <vaughnp@pcez.com> wrote:
> > Disaster <disaster@disfanfic.net> wrote:
> > > Well first, she wants to do it to be humanities proof of existance.
>  Not be
> > > a marker to ET's that humans live here! Second, she heading out cause
> > > there is no point in staying around a world that is expected to be
>  devoid
> > > of life in a little while. 3rd humanity is not going to live forever,
>  Yui
> > > is. So in this regard, if we come back from goo or not is irrelivant.
>  4th,
> > > if ET really wanted to know where we came from then all they have to
>  do is
> > > chart Unit 01's floating corse, allow for the movment of celestial
>  objects
> > > and boom, found earth again.
> > >
> > > Unit 01 is a marker of mans existance in time and space. Not a beacon
>  for
> > > aliens to find us by. But a notice to aliens that we existed. Sort of
>  like
> > > Voyagers first mission.
> >
> > Still kinda cold, Yui leaving Shinji like that. Or did she expect Asuka
>  to
> > return to/be found by/find Shinji, and even then, is that going to be
>  enough
> > for our beleaguered hero? Will Misato return? Touji? Kensuke? Hikari?
> > Shinji's teacher (the one Gendo left Shinji with, not the boring old guy
>  who
> > kept droning on and on about SI)? Anyone else? Would Shinji and Asuka
>  even
> > consider trying to repopulate the planet?
> >
> > Oh dear, I'm cross-eyed.
> 
> Okay, as far as we know Yui's vision of post 3rd Impact was everyone
> joined in a mega-soul, unified into one being living in perfect worlds
> with no pain. Yui knew that if it was her son's vision of perfection that
> he would bring his mother back into his world if he needed her. So by
> leaving, Yui knew that she would always be there for him. However, Yui
> also knew that if Shinji rejected the perfect world and the unified soul
> that he would no longer need her. He would have developed mentally to a
> mature enough state to look after himself. This is of course assuming that
> Yui knew a lot, I think that we can assume safely that she does know a lot
> of this as she was privy to the Dead Seas Scroll's before Gendo was.
> 
> As to people returning? Well Yui herself tells us that those with the will
> to live may return to do so. As to Shinji and Asuka populating the world?
> Doubtful, let's let them grow up first.

Shinji has grown up, that's the whole damn point of the series (well
not the WHOLE point, but you know what I mean), Asuka also did some
considerable maturing in episodes 22+, but grown-up may be too strong
a term for her.