> >
> >Usefull? At least her failures were not for lack of trying. Shingi was
> >pretty useless most of the time too. Half the time his Eva bailed him
> out.
> >Lets be honest, if you were preparing for a battle to save the human
> race
> >would you let ANY of these pychological trainwrecks be involved?
>
> The thing is, Gendo WASN'T out to save the human race...
>
> FW
>

Not in the sense that he was trying to keep mankind safe AS IS, but was
rather working to achive a forced evolutionary process (and be reunited with
his beloved wife in the process). The only difference I can see between
Gendo's plans and SEELE's plans were Gendo was trying to control the process
through Rei, while I presume SEELE just wanted it to occur on it's own
(under Rei/Lillith's command). Can't imagine SEELE was too pleased to have
Shinji put in charge of deciding the outcome. But, as the old saying goes,
"...the best laid plans of men and mice..."

                                  Vaughn L. Porter
                                   And I do think Asuka 'complements' Shinji
quite well.