[EVA] Gendou - man or monster?

[Drew Lewis]

> @How is Misato a badass?!  She is the only person who cares about the kids.
> True she's batchelor-womanchild, but that's her appeal.  In other animes
> she'd be the tomboy like Mao in Full Metal Panic, for example. And Sadamoto
> in his introduction to the manga says she lives lightly to cover her pain.
> One thing I liked about 1.01 is that Misato's new, more profound
> self-confession & unease after Shinji had gone to have his bath, & then
> later when she was in the bath.
> RJN
>


Apparently someone was asleep during Episode 7, and Episode 18, and EOE...
need I go on? :)

I also like what they've done with the new Misato, the old one was easy to
dismiss as a flake for the first few episodes, but this one is a lot more
what you'd expect from Nerv's Ops officer.