murmur Wrote:Looking over the Classified Information from the Evawiki, which parses with what I remember from ages-ago reading of the translation of the special booklet that came with End of Evangelion, I have to ask--though once again I expect no answers--whether the events of Evangelion are theological or "scientific."Is the Precursor stuff from a video game, or from additional material distributed at a screening of the EoE movie? You weren't really clear on that.
Say, if Our Hero Doug was looking at an Angel (or even Rei), what would his mage sight see? Celestial? Alien? Elder One?
Looking at the Classified Information, it seems that the Angels/Lilith/Adam were sent here by Neglectful Precursors--that is, aliens. Which means that for all the religiously-themed nonsense of Evangelion, it's all "science."
Of course, remember that for the DW-verse, magic is what's needed for the Grand Unified Theory. Therefore the Neglectful Precursors could have been both magical and scientific, cause they're Precursors and thus nigh-all-powerful (it pretty much says so on tvtropes).
But still, the Precursor theory is not from the tv series or movies proper, but rather a licensed video game. Therefore it may not have been the authorial intent. Further, there's no reason to say that the Evangelion-verse that Doug leaps into is one which had the Neglectful Precursors, but rather had a pretty funky version of the Abrahamic God running the show.
Still, what would Doug see when he looked at Rei and the Evas and Angels?
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber." --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.