[EVA] EoTV/EoE (sigh)

[Aaron Clark]

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--Aaron

> SSD:
>
>> Nitpick: EoTV and EoE are the same ending.
>
> Nitpick: The above is an extremely simplified statement and the matter is
> much more complicated than this. Conditionals are your friend, in any
> case.
>
> RJN:
>
>> Well, IIRC they are not: the tv ending shows the Instrumentality process
>> being completed and Shinji coming to the presented conclusions through
>> it,
>> whereas the movie ending has Shinji refuse and abort the process and
>> return to reality.
>
> Instrumentality if completed would annihilate all selves. In EoTV, Shinji
> comes to the realization that it is possible for him to live a life
> without
> Eva and that it is okay to exist after all. The confining enclosure of the
> auditorium (our "theatre" for Instrumentality) shatters so that he might
> be
> congratulated by other people, and we see everywhere somewhat surreally
> standing above a "big blue ball" (apparently Earth). This can be thought
> of
> as a parallel to the shattering of the Black Moon, which frees the souls
> of
> humanity and enables them to return to individual existences in the
> physical
> world.
>
> -Reichu
>
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