[EVA] Concurrency tangent (WAS: Alternate Rei on DVD cover)

[Gwern Branwen]

2010/2/5 SSD <sailorstardust at evageeks.org>:
>  >direct metaphor for when Shinji puts on his headphones or when Asuka
> mechanically plays video games: "shutting out the world and living in a
> world of fantasy"
>
>>Hm? When does Asuka mechanically play video games? I know it's been too
> long since I watched the TV series but the only video game I
> remember her playing was for fighting the twin Angel.
>
> You see this in one of the Rebuild 2.0 trailers. Not sure why Rebuild is
> being brought up in a topic of the original series though, other than for
> comparison purposes...

When Rebuild finishes, no doubt there will be many discussions of how
close it is to TV and how licit cross-use of examples are for
questions like this. :)

Anyhoo, was it a specific trailer? I'd like to see it. Did the
game-playing show up in the movie proper?

-- 
gwern