"Amani" <amani@charter.net> wrote in message
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> 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...