"Rudolf Polzer" <AntiATField_adsgohere@durchnull.de> wrote:
> Scripsit illa aut ille Michael Wignall <wigs@evangelion.com>:
> > I asked this question a while ago but no one seemed to be able
> > to provide a definite answer. I've looked through everything I
> > own and everything I can get my hands on and I haven't been
> > and to find anything that answers my question absolutely.
> >
> > So...How do we know that Asuka is born in 2001?
>
> Probably we don't.
>
> From line 193:
> EVA04.txt-        him to be burdened with the destiny of humanity.
> EVA04.txt-
> EVA04.txt-Ritsuko: We have no choice but to put the controls of Evas
into the hands
> EVA04.txt:        of those 14-year-old children.
> EVA04.txt-
> EVA04.txt-Misato: I know.
> EVA04.txt-
>
> IMHO Ritsuko does know about Asuka when saying that (note the plural in
> "those 14-year-old children" - if Shinji was meant, at least the
> "those" would be a "that"). Why do I think that? Simple.

You put to much meaning in her statement. It's a causal statement. I can
refer to an entire school of children by saying "those 16 year olds" and
mean everyone in every grade. It's a very casual reference of course.
Ritsuko is referring to the children via the assumed, general average of
their ages.

> Ritsuko knows many things, I'd guess she also knows who the 2nd Children
> is. She knows the 1st and the 3rd, she knows the numbering, and I guess
> she knows also the 2nd. Who would not ask who the 2nd is if he/she knows
> about a 1st and a 3rd?
>
> Now I found something to conclude from that Ritsuko knows well about the
> numbering:
>
> From line 398:
> EVA04.txt-
> EVA04.txt-* Gendo, Ritsuko and Rei on a moving sidewalk.
> EVA04.txt-
> EVA04.txt:Ritsuko: The Third Children is leaving Tokyo-3 tomorrow.
> EVA04.txt-
> EVA04.txt-Gendo:  Then we'll reconfigure the data of Unit One for Rei.
Regardless of
> EVA04.txt-        the results of restarting Unit Zero, we'll start with
that Unit.
> EVA04.txt-
> EVA04.txt:Gendo:  According to the Malduck Organization's report, the
Fourth Children
> EVA04.txt-        has yet to be found.
> EVA04.txt-
> EVA04.txt-Ritsuko: You mean that we cannot get more recruits for pilots.
>
> So I conclude Ritsuko knows Asuka is 14 years old at the time episode 4
> happens.

Just what exactly in that quote tells us that Ritsuko knows anything other
then they can't find another pilot and that Shinji is leaving?
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