"Joe AOL" <joe@aol.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.09.16.17.20.40.542733.6301@aol.com...
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:39:49 -0700, Vaughn L.Porter wrote:
>
>
> > "Sakaki" <Alphonse@work.com> wrote in message
> > news:Xns93F8BAEA23E8EAlphonseworkcom@204.127.199.17...
> >> fwhite*NOSPAM*@colfax.com (Frank White) wrote in
> >> news:bk3apc$1ofu$2@news.fsr.net:
> >>
> >> > In article <Xns93F6E7E672080Alphonseworkcom@204.127.199.17>,
> >> > Alphonse@work.com says...
> >> >>
> >> >>Pharsti <pharsti11@coldmail.com> wrote in
> >> >>news:Xns93F0A5C5A5EE3pharsti11hotmailcom@212.115.192.188:
> >> >>
> >> >>> Daniel Rudy <dcrudy@invalid.pacbell.nospam.net.0123456789> wrote in
> >> >>> news:xXW6b.12385$kq6.7233@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com:
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>>>> Did anyone else ever notice that the water she's lying in is red?
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/bsl/bath.jpg
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Actually, that looks like the bottom of the tub.  The actual water
> >> >>>> around her legs is a brownish color when compared to her skin
> >> >>>> color.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Looking closely, I can see that too, but why on earth would the
> >> >>> bottom of a tub be red? I forgot to mention though that this is
> >> >>> only visible in the DC version of the episode, the scene was a lot
> >> >>> darker in the original series, and there wasn't any red visible. So
> >> >>> why would they change it and make it a red color, just to confuse
> >> >>> us?
> >> >>
> >> > Blood makes more sense...
> >> >
> >> > FW
> >> >
> >> >
> >> Possibly; but the question was why would a tub bottom be red, rust
> >> would do that, blood would make the water red not the bottom. Unless it
> >> was old blood left to dry there, but that would be more brown than red.
> >> ;)
> >>
> >>
> > Again, the question remains as to how long Asuka had been sitting there
> > in the tub, and just what her method of suicide was. Without any
> > timeframe, we can't really say if she had  slit her wrists, or was just
> > going to die of exposure and starvation. Again, yet another of Anno's
> > attempts to make folks like us debate 'till we're blue in the face.
> >
> >                                         Vaughn L. Porter
> >                                          We need proof, not leads!
>
> Anyone seen the Godfather pt II? The red stuff was blood, Asuka had slit
> her wrists and was bleeding to death in the tub. It didn't turn all the
water
> red because blood is heavier than water and would sink to the
> bottom.
>
> At least, that's my take.
>
> JA

darn...that makes sense... :)


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