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No prob. In theory, anyone could kill an Angel, if they were able to comprehent their own AT field enought o control it like an Eva (all beings maintain their individuality through AT fields, its what keeps everyone seperate), wield a weapon strong enough to puncture the core, and somehow protect their body from the ensuing blast.. But for all intents, angels don't need to eat, don't age (though they do "mature" from their egg state), don't procreate, evolve, etc They basically are what they are. The Lance of Longinus is another suedo mystery, and the one clue that the whole process of seeding life was intentionally done by some kind of alien race. There's only one true lance, though Seele was able to mass produce it to an extent, the many don't seem to compare to the original. But it in itself is the key to activating the process of seeding life (and as shown, reversing that process). You'll note that when Yui left Earth, she took the Lance with her. Assumedly, once she gets to wherever she's going, it's what will trigger the seperationg of Eva-01 into 2 eggs, and a new set of what will become Angels & Humans, for a new First Impact. Could Seele have recreated the process with their 9 Lances? If not, then they got damn near close. How was it used on Lilith's body in Terminal Dogma? I "think" it was being used to keep the body from finishing a regeneration, so they (Nerv) could keep it producing LCL. Why they needed such a huge supply I'm not sure. Next obvious question is about Adam, the purpose of Second Impact was to put him in a controllable state. Somehow they were able to regress his body to an embryo, and seperate his soul from it to prevent an Angel attack before things were ready. Though that in itself is a big question, would the Angels have attacked if not provoked by humans? Hopefully that will be explaind in the new films. But just as Gendo used Liliths soul to work on a dummy plug prototype system, Seele used Adam's to do the same. The only real question there, is what was his body cloned from. There's zero info on that, but I always thought he looked like Kaji, if not, then likely Keele Lorenz. Why did Gendo steal the Adam embryo? He had it implanted in his hand so he could have the angel side, and intended to use Rei/Lilith to combine him with the Lilith side so he could take over that entity. That plan obviously didn't work, since Rei took back Adam's body, and apparently the soul as well (Kaworu died in terminal dogma, and seems to have been drawn back in with Rei when she reformed god Lilith). Had that not happened, then it would have been an odd mixture of Gendo & Rei's souls in that body. (probably).

That is truly the sexiest ship design ever. Now I'm going to forget that thing exists so I'm not tempted to spend far too much money on it with no place to put it!

Let's put it this way, they're immortal, but not invincable. Kinda like Highlander, but with big red balls

GET A ROPE! BOMBA!!

Is he at least buying Arcades? it'd be sadder if they were all Elites.

Google is your friend. http://www.motorballer.org/redcross.html The older HTML versions (that I liked better) don't seem to exist anymore, but this is the same info, just layed out differently. It's basically a multi-page pamphlet that was handed out in theaters during the film screenings. In it are official studio definitions of terms for the series, to clear up some of them mystery. The whole deal with the Children is still a bit fuzzy, but likely it did have something to do with their psychological states, ease of control (relative), and ready suplly of supportive female influences. It may have also been an intentional decision by Gendo. Both Shinji & his Yui clone were relatively the same age, so it'd make sense to have the other candidates as similar to them as possible to avoid suspicion.

It was in that cloud they flew through on the way to Tokyo 3. Touji never had a chance to properly synch with the Eva, the Angel synched with it before him. As for what the angels are, they're an alternate evolutionary path of existence. Where the Lilim (which would also likely include most animal life, not just humans) are many & finite, Angels are few & infinite in their existence. If you consider (god) Lilith to be an infinite singular super being, in order to become many beings that lived shorter & multiple lives, something had to be shed. And that's what the Angels were. Both came from the same origins, and both were competing to be the dominant life forms.

Loved the Eva one, just now starting the Escaflowne one.

Assumedly, it'd be easier with a live test subject. Yui was alive, Asuka's mother assumedly dead (or dying) but both live & dead people can be reduced to LCL.

That's easily one of the best fan parodies I've ever seen. Brilliant!

Check out the scenes leading up to the destruction of 00, Rei wasn't speaking with the Angel, she was speaking with herself whom had been in the Eva. Besides which, it was clearly explained on several occasions that the Eva's just don't work without souls to synch with, not even for Kowaru. Made in America yes, but as Ritsuko so nicely put it, she had a pilot, and a core ready to prep for it. She also so nicely took care of the arrangements to move Touji's sister for him at Nerv's private hospitol. A bit too easy for her yes, but all the pieces fell together. Unfortunately for all involved, something was already in the Eva before it got there.

Wow, that was impressive even for me, and I wasn't even thinking of Xenogears

3rd Rei wasn't so much a rebel, as she was the "true" Rei. or perhaps the return of the first. At that point, she remembers what she is, and can then see through Gendo's interference with the natural order of what's going on. Rei & Kaworu are counterparts of the same being, which is why she/they take the stance of overseeing, and letting their children choose the path that life should continue in. As opposed to letting Gendo or Seele railroad things into either chosen direction. As for poser guru's, you can usually sniff them out by their excess of exestencialism, vapid theories that have nothing to do with what's actually going on in the show, and lack of adherence to series definitions that were spelled out in the RCB.

The Eva's were clearly driven by animal instincts for the most part, and perhaps that had something to do with the limiters placed on them, or the lack of an infinite power source, but each and every Eva represented the soul that was inside for the most part. At no point id any of the Eva's do anything to/for their pilots that they wouldn't have done in life. But again, I think it had something to do with limiters being placed on them, hence the need for a pilot to control & synch with. I also doubt Asuka's mother willingly decided to join with Unit-02, likely what was left of her was rushed there upon committing suicide. More interestingly though, and not spelled out in so many words, Unit-00's soul was somehow a split of Rei/Lilith. The side of her who remembered who & what she was, and the side that was rejoined once Unit-00 was invaded & destroyed. Also, Unit-03 was Touji's sister, before being taken over by the angel at least.

Actualy, Shinji is just the opposite, he's representative of average disenchanted youth, stock (for the most part) adolescent problems, awkwardness, etc, all of which is exploited by Seele as a general human desire for destruction. It should also be pointed out that a god in Eva isn't a general definition of "god." In Eva, a god is that which contains the polar oppposite seeds of life (perpetual energy S2 Organ/Angel core), and Seeds of Wisdom (sense of individuality & general human whatnots), combined into one. That's why neither Adam or Lilith alone could be considered to be gods, and Yui wasn't a god until taking in angels core & adapting it to herself. In Seeding worlds, likely its a one shot deal (same reason Lilith (Rei/Kaworu) couldn't/didn't leave earth even after Instrumentality was abandoned. Think of it in the literal sense of a tree, once it's rooted, it's rooted, but a germinated seed can grow elsewhere. As for being low minded, to a large extent you're correct. Seele had no such desire, rather than contemplate that possability, they'd rather return to the womb to perpetually exist. Ritsuko only wanted Gendo's affections, which she knew she could never have. Fuyutski wanted to aid is prize student in her efforts, Gendo wanted to be with the woman he loved no matter what the cost, etc. Yui selflessly chose to give up her existence so that life could continue regardless of how things went on Earth, and in that sense, she was the onlhy high minded one in the series, save for maybe Misato & Kaji.

::scratches head:: NO! As MW's semi-retired (in that I haven't watched the series in several years) self proclaimed Eva guru (ask Milkman X), I feel obligated to make some corrections here. First & foremost, Yui's joining with Eva-01 was not a plot by Naoko Akagi, or Gendo, but entirely of her own doing. Which takes us into another matter of topic here, which is if there are other beings in the Eva universe. First Impact was the arrival of Lilith (and in Eva Lilith refers to two beings, the first that we see being the "Lilith" on the cross in Terminal dogma, who was also the origin of Rei's soul. The second is the God Lilith whom we don't see until the very end, and she was the combination of Adam & Lilith as a single being), during first Impact, Lilith seperated into 2 beings/eggs, one fell in antarctica, the other in the location that would become Tokyo 3. So basically, in Eva, all life on the planet was caused by alien seeding of Earth (also similar to the origins of man in Nadia). Flash forward to the Eva-01 synch tests, aside from the necessity to have a loving female soul in the Eva in order for a pilot to synch with it, Yui chose to join with Eva Unit-01 so that she could become a new god, travel through space, and repeat the events that caused life on Earth by seeding life on another world. Gendo willingly assisted her with this, but selfishly tried to use Rei to help him become a god too, so that he might also leave with Yui (and that was Gendo's grand scheme through the whole series). Now onto Instrumentality, and the most important thing to remember between the TV ending & the movie ending, is that they're the exact same ending. No qualms were made during the TV ending, they were blatant about not being able to afford to animate the rest of the show. Worked in everyones favor anyway, since we got a high theatrical production of the events. But regardless, Instrumentality wasn't Evolution, it was DEVOlution (are we men? we are devo!!) specifically back into a static state of being pre-first impact. Both sides of the god (Adam & Lilith) plus man back into the egg which they came, all in a suedo life/death existence of virtual nothingness. No pain/no joy, no individuality, etc. Consider the bits of dialogue between all of the characters akin to the scene in the movie where little Rei's lower everyones AT fields & reduce them to LCL. The decision was made by Seele to implement to devolution, and the final choice was put into Shinji's hands. In both versions, he gives into destrado, everyone is goo'd together, and Shinji is given a final decision just before sealing everyone up togther. After experiencing the lull'd existence of nothingness, he rightfully decides that it's far better to exist with the potential for pain in the persuit of happyness, than it is to just float along being nothing with nothing. The rest is pretty self explanitory, Gendo is denied his wish to be with Yui, Yui herself (regardless of how things went on Earth) still leaves to perpetuate life elsewhere, and Shinji finally finds some legitimate self comfidence, but an ending where he still has to strive for his own happyness.

Just for that RROD BEEEAAAAMMMM!!!!!!!!

Well I have 2, so there!

And that's where the tweaks come in. Instead of Earth, it would have to be a remote colony planet, instead of the actual Macross, it'd have to be one of the mass production models (even II). Put into that new context, many of the elements which were once blarring plot holes, can be attributed to privately funded fleet whackyness.

Here ya go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETUUkz_vCFo Check about 5 minutes 20 secpmds into this clip of Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi ep 12 to see what I imagined reading your comment Why it's in spanish, I don't know..

All in all, this set was to be had at quite reasonable prices, as long as those of us who've done so don't remember how much we paid for R2's & R1's of the DVD's...

Wikipedia?! YACH DECULTCHA!

I really like how they took the opportunity to break away from some of the things that were bogging down the battle series. Hopefully they'll consider implementing some of the newer AF features in the next Gundam game, or better yet, Macross vs Gundam (again, Valkyries for the win).

Find me a Meltrandi that anyone wouldn't want to