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*blows smoke off gunbarrel, twirls the gun around, puts it back in holster* I also always thought that Wendy Ryder might have been named after Winona. And there's always Lanka: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanka

Are the comics any good? I stopped by the used book store on Sunday and picked up the "Battlestar Galactica Trilogy" book, with three (duh) novels in it. I started reading the first one, set twenty years before the show, but it looks like later developments in the series (i.e. The Battlestar Valkyrie) have invalidated it.

Well, there's always famous French singer Mylene Farmer...

Then how 'bout "New Zac"?

Now, "The Eye of Jupiter"...THAT was a damn good episode. When they get to a crisis point, they really like to pile on as many crises as possible, don't they? Before they found the Temple of Five (which, I assume, has some kind of connection to the Final Five), though, I was feeling bad for the planet. The title card that came up just read "ALGAE PLANET." Now what kind of name is that, I ask you? It looks MUCH more inviting than New Caprica (well, except for the sun about to go supernova, that is), and it doesn't even warrant a name? "New Geminon"? "New Picon"? Nothing? On a completely unrelated note, I like Boomer's white suede jacket.

I just wonder what VFTF1 and Keith are going to say when they see the EVA-03 section in Eva 2.0...

I wonder about Hot Dog...I went to high school with the actor (never spoke to him, though...and no, I never met his dad, unfortunately), so I feel an attachment to the character that is completely unjustified by the amount of screentime he gets. But let's face it...the guy seems eminently expendable. There's also the prophecy the Roslin won't make it to earth... (Just thinking aloud...please don't answer any of this... )

Poor Kat...

Conversely, he could "happen" to visit because A) his connection his sister is what made him hate Shinji-as-Eva-pilot back at the beginning of the series. Or, since Toi's caring for his sister is really the only credible reason for the Class Rep to say that she likes "his kindness," it could be a reminder of that. Gendo states "then I trust you to make it so." This clearly implies that it was NOT YET MADE. EVA-03 has no core at this point. Not necessarily. They do have to "reconfigure" the core for each pilot, which takes time. I interpet "prepare" to mean, "get the core ready." The core is part of the Eva's body. It doesn't LOOK like something you could simply pluck out and put back in, at least. I'll have to watch the episode to make sure, but I have a feeling that the "I trust you to make it so," is simply some form common Japanese verb "makaseru," which means "Leave it to [you]." Gendo says it a lot, and the translators always seem to be looking for new English synonyms for it. Huh? I never got that impression...how is this strong implied?

Again, I don't see that inference.

I asked my EVA-03 model kit. It just growled at me. Did I say I believe it was Toji's mom? Like I said, I don't know. It never occurred to me that it was his sister, though, because, again...no one ever mentioned that she died, and I assume it's not possible to harvest a soul from a living person. I never thought Toji had any control in the Eva at all. It went berserk, and he was just a passenger. Anyone in the cockpit would've had the same experience, regardless of whose soul was in it (I'm cheating a bit here...Evangelion 2.0 deals a bit with this). Looking back on it, after learning that Yui was in EVA-01, and Kyoko was in EVA-02, I thought it MIGHT have been Toji's mom in EVA-03, but it seemed that they never gave us enough information to even make an educated guess. Until, that is, the Classified Information in the PS2 game came out.

Why do Minmei, Bowie, Musical, Yellow Dancer, all the other Robotech musicians play music? Do they do it for others? Is it for themselves? Is it because they just CAN? ...I still don't get it.

WI never said that it was Toji's mom. I don't WHOSE soul is in Eva-03, I just don't think it was Toji's sister. Because if she was killed, then that's a pretty big plot point for them to, y'know, never mention at all. EDIT: Obviously, I can't prove that his sister's soul is NOT in there, I just did the best I could with the available materials (I'll check Evangelion Chronicle tonight to see if it sheds any light on the situation). But I defy you or anyone else to conclusively prove that it IS Toji's sister's soul in there. Dialogue from the show, creator interviews, secondary material...all of this would be admissible.

*A-HEM!*

I guess I can see where, watching it weekly, people wouldn't like it. It doesn't advance the overall plot much, but it does change a lot of stuff that we thought we already knew about. I like Lee, too. I thought he was a douche at first, but he's grown on me.

Okay, okay. You're right. Gainax is wrong. Toji wanted his sister to get better medical services. They transferred her to the NERV hospital. Therefore, it follows logically that they killed her and harvested her soul. No other interpretation is possible. I stand corrected.

Was it stuff they had filmed previously but had ended up on the cutting room floor? If so, they did a good job of piecing it together in an interesting way. And yeah...this episode was clearly a cost-cutting episode, but they did it in a smart way, and made it feel like a necessary part of the story.

Again: "A unit called a core is used to eliminate the discrepancies in Eva, a human being with the body of a god and a soul. The soul of the pilot's mother, which is placed within the core, acts as a medium and makes piloting possible. Due to difficulties encountered in the development of Eva-00, the core's system is poorly constructed, and she falls behind in performance capacity as a result. Another reason for her inferiority is that Eva-00's pilot, Rei, does not have a mother." This is from an official source, approved by Anno, and for which he was heavily consulted. Seems pretty clear cut to me.

Cripes. Who would've thought that an entire episode spent in a boxing ring could be so fraught with meaning...?

Hmm...If you're arguing what I think you're arguing, I disagree. Let's take SDF Macross as an example. We've got the show. We've got interviews with the creators. We've got stuff like Macross Chronicle. If there are contradictions, shouldn't we be able to say that the show trumps the interviews, and that the interviews trump Chronicle? And that ALL of them trump any theories you or I may have? The tiers are not speculation, they're common sense. Mikimoto could get drunk and say, "Really, Minmay's not Chinese, she's Brazilian." But the show contradicts that, so his words would be discounted. Macross Chronicle could say that the VF-1S has a speaker-pod launching gun instead of a normal gunpod. But the show contradicts it, and sketches by Kawamori contradict it, so Macross Chronicle would be wrong. However, if Macross Chronicle says that Elmo Kirdanik is Britai's grandson...well, it doesn't contradict the show, and it doesn't contradict any interviews. So it sticks. And if...I dunno, who can I pick on...dreamweaver13 comes out and says, "I think Elmo is actually Max and Milia's only son," we can point to Macross Chronicle and say, "Well, it wasn't mentioned in the show, but it was mentioned here." And he would say "Oh," and move on. Besides, the categorization system is necessary for something like Eva Geeks, where some information IS INDEED contradictory, and they have to decide which one takes precedence. I agree. But we're not arguing with the categorization system, we're arguing with official sources. Which is much trickier, unless they are CLEARLY false. Eva Geeks is a great resource, isn't it? Categorization system and all.

Which to me suggests that we need to tread lightly with how we understand its' contents. Here are the tiers and what they mean: Are you really saying that statements made by people at Macross World should be given equal weight with statements by the show's creators or official supplemental sources? The Angel was indeed in the cloud. "Bardiel" is the name of the 13th Angel. In non-Eva material (such as the excellent Dictionary of Angels), it's "Baradiel." But anyway, he's the Angel of Lightning.

Whoops, sorry...missed this: The Second Impact occured a mere fifteen years before, and the years following it were "hell" according to Fuyutsuki. After all was said and done, half the human race had been killed. Again, from Evageeks ( http://wiki.evageeks.org/Second_Impact ): I don't think a motherless class would've been terribly unusual.

No, I think the strongest argument is the link. If you follow the link on "Classified Information," you get: This has been fully translated on the site. Makes for good reading. And yes...I suppose they could've told Toji that his sister died from her wounds, but...again, would he continue piloting for them? Or (Toji being Toji) would he blame them for letting her die and storm off? Anyway, it's Keith's theory, and while I certainly can't say that it's wrong, I've never, ever heard anyone else (besides you) espouse it, and there is nothing in the show or in the supplementary material to make me put stock in it.

Do tell!

They even covered up the Unification Wars that wiped out a large percentage of mankind...damn, these spooks are good...