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

[V V]

"

>>>Their motives are self-absorbed. SEELE will have no truck
with any

'god' which they didn't make or control. They certainly will have no

truck with a genuine monotheistic Western-style God! (Such a God might

inconveniently order them to stay alive and do good works.)"
Verily.  Seele aren't really fanatic servants of a god or belief system:  they want to BECOME gods....--- that's a good point.  




">>>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."
Oh
this was very intriguing:  in the original outline of the series
shopped around to networks as a pitch-package of sorts, "Evangelion
Proposal", it mentions that Asuka plays video games alot:  so this was
an idea from the early days of the project...however, it didn't really
come into the series that much.Still...bits of
it filter in:  most prominently of course, is when Asuka starts falling
into depression after losing the Zeruel fight (classic Narcissistic
reaction to confirmed failure...)...anyway, you'll remember that she
hangs out at Hikari's house...mechanically playing video games and refusing to sleep.So
this WAS an idea for Asuka they had all along since the early planning
days, and it seems that Rebuild decided to refocus on it:  Asuka plays
video games alot in Rebuild.Basically...just as Shinji "zones out" with his headphones, Asuka has a hand-held, basically Nintendo DS video game system
which she just whips out whenever she's bored.  It's a parallel Rebuild
draws between the two:  BOTH have a way they "zone out" and
basically..."self-medicate"Now at first this
seemed like a brand new addition to Asuka...until you realize it's
actually an idea from the early planning days of the original series
that got basically cut for time, etc. but which *is* present in the
final storyarc (at Hikari's house).If you rewatch the episode, you will notice that in the future of 2015, the Sega Saturn will dominate home electronic console entertainment.