[EVA] Gendou - man or monster?

[colin tate]

(Puts on Joy Division "Love Will Tear Us Apart")

I for one consider Gendo a monster.  To me a monster is a person or a thing
which operates outside the societal norm.  The magnitude of monster can be
defined by just how far someone operates beyond what the group or
individuals baseline view of "acceptable" is.

Is Gendo a monster?  Yes.  Hell yes.  Both in how he treated Shinji, and how
he treated humanity in his attempt to reunite with Yui.

I'd be interested in hearing peoples thoughts about Instrumentality.  I
consider it to be monstrous in that it wasn't an action which was
universally accepted by humankind.  I do however marvel at the fact that
there was a group of people who considered this to be a sound move forward
for the benefit of humanity - and in doing so they created their own
baseline, and to them are no longer monstrous.  That fascinates me.



On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Otaprince <gainaxpages at yahoo.com> wrote:

> > He's a great
> > bastard of a character who keeps his pimp hand strong, but he is a
> > great bastard nonetheless.
>
>
> He'd bad. He's a bad, bad man. But it's LOVE that made him bad ^_^
> --
> Evangelion mailing list - To unsubscribe, visit
> http://eva.onegeek.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/evangelion
>