Quote:Um? 'Rei's soul is not a perfect human soul and therefore she'll always be borderline-autistic and that's just the way things are' isn't a case of determining the course of someone's entire existence based on something that they themselves had absolutely nothing to do with? Sounds like the good old Calvinist line to -me-.
Not really. It just means that souls aren't one-size-fits-all...or at least, they need a bit of retooling at the Cosmic Soul Recycling Center between uses.
Quote:Last I checked, Angels weren't any farther from human than a lobster. 98% and change similarity, just like everything else on the planet? Certainly they're not -human-, but saying that that fact means that they're somehow forever beyond mortal ken is just more Lovecraft nonsense.
She's the biological and metaphysical fusion of human and hostile, otherworldly other. If that isn't the very definition of "incomprehensible" and "eldritch", I'd like to know what is.
As to hostile, well, it's not like we know what this whole fight's -about-.
Quote:Amen.
And "horror" is entirely subjective.
Quote:Now, I didn't follow the whole 'Dolly' thing closely enough to know what the muttonchop's particular problem was, but I'm willing to buy that Gehirn could manage an effective clone.
We can't even clone a sheep and have it last more than a couple of years, and you'd be suprised if they made a little "oops" when creating some strange human/angel hybrid just three or four years after retrieving Adam? Second Impact EVA-verse tech level appeared to be on par with our own -- they just managed to drum up a shitload of funding.
As to the 'fusion' argument, I'd reccomend a google on "genetic hybrids" - most of what comes up is vegetable related, but IIRC they've been doing animal testing for years.
Quote:There's no question that her environment's, put it flatly, shit. That's not what I'm arguing - I'm just saying that there's nothing intrinsicly wrong with the girl.
Utter bullshit. There are any number of purely physiological conditions which result in an inability to comprehend normal human relations, regardless of "healthy developmental environment" -- and I feel quite certain that Rei most definitely did not have said environment.
Anyway, I'll grant that my argument doesn't work. And, not knowing much of anything on the subject, I can't offer a reasoned case for it -not- applying to Rei - although I'll note that the fact that she improves as time goes by (where an untreated chronic illness would presumably either worsen or maintain a steady state) doesn't seem to jive.
Quote:Que? It didn't, against Bardiel?
I'm assuming that Nerv would want their dummy plugs to be able to create a functional AT field.
Quote:This assumes that the Lance is/was Lilith's only restraint. Nerv/Gehirn manages to create functional, durable, portable restraints for the Evas - why not an immobile unit for Lillith? At a guess, I'd say it looks like a cross...
I'm pretty sure that Lilith woudn't have hung around after the Lance of Longinus was removed from her chest if Rei hadn't been playing steward for her soul, as I'm not aware of any other necessary bits of Lilith that Rei has.
Quote:Is a photograph a person? IIRC, Shinji's interaction with 'the spirit of 01' takes place after he's absorbed. Strange things happen to a person's mind in sensory deprivation. Unit 02, also to my memory, never actually responds to Asuka with anything more than warm fuzzy feelings - which could just as easily be the 'wavelength' Langely Sr. was on when the system did its "ZAP!" trick.
All I know is that Shinji explicitly recognizes his mother's soul in Unit-01, as does Asuka in Unit-02. Seems more a case of soul-osmosis to me.
For that matter, I'm not saying that a pattern copy -can't- be destructive to its source, just that it doesn't need to be.
All of this should be taken with a grain of salt, and filtered through the knowledge that I haven't actually -seen- the last half of the series, and also that my 1st and 2nd reactions the hearing about some symbolic revelation are that whatever its supposed to be or people think it is, is wrong.
Symbolism. *retch*
Blessed be.
-n
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