"Richard Liang" <rhliang@interchange.ubc.ca> wrote in message
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> James M wrote:
>
> According to the Cardass Masters Card Game he wasn't
> strangling at all,  he was "trying to confirm that she was there"
> or something, basically  just touching her to make sure she's there.
> I don't buy that myself,  per se, but I really don't think he chose
> to end instrumentality just so  he could strangle Asuka.

He _was_ strangling her, the card just didn't mention it. It didn't
say he _wasn't_ though.

> >    On a side question Did Gendo Ikari Die? They show his
> > headless body standing there after an encounter with Eva 01
> > that could'nt have been real in the physial sense. Shouldnt he
> > have melted like everyone else?  Did or didnt he join the
> > instrumentality?
> >
> >
> I think he did.  I think EVERYONE did whether they liked it or not.

But Gendou wanted to. His retribution, his punishment, was not to
be reverted to LCL like everyone else, not to have his soul released,
not to join in with the rest of humanity. He was excluded. Gendou wanted
to join in, his retribution was that he couldn't. At least that is what I
think.

--
Michael Wignall
"Tomorrow's just an excuse away..."