>>2161853>giving her Yui's journal and telling het that is is/should be like Yui, and that bastard raised/conditioned/brainwashed her from birth - go figure. Which misses my point - Rei already was nothing like Yui even if she read the journals. We know that, Rei should know it, so why is this a big question for Rei? All it implies here, is that Rei is less capable intellectually than the original version, by far.
I suppose my point is that they make a big fuzz about being a clone, put some weight into developing it, but when it comes to it all.... it wasn't a big deal after all. In fact, you'd wonder why Rei and the rest was even confused in the first place. It's totally wasted like this, isn't it?
It achieves only one thing and that is making Rei's character less her own, and basing it more on being a clone of Yui in particular. Secondarily it makes Rei less valuable as her own character, not even Gendo puts much stock in Rei in Rebuild or the spinoffs. In the original Gendo was legitimately sad when Rei died, not so much any more.
>She never had any true allegiance to Neo Nerv. That's what I meant, with no allegiance and no real understanding of what's going on, she's free right from the start to whatever she likes. No responsibilities either because she doesn't understand the word. Nothing to think about.
Why she is like this, neither you or I know, but we can easily fanwank something. Truth is that they didn't show or imply anything concrete. Rei Q is stupid for her lack of reasoning and intelligence.
To not lose track of my main point, which is to look at it from the great whole. Even if Rei is complex and has deeper philosophical concerns than her new counterparts, a lot of people would not pick up on that and prefer to call her a doll because Asuka does, and think she's a emotionless clone because it's simpler. Even if she isn't shown to be that way.
If it were to actually show her like this, they would continue believing so, but justified this time.
