>>2161742>>2161762>the wave of baddass!Rei and Philosophic!Rei we've been havingWhere? Maybe you've seen people talk about it because that's what they want, but 3.0 presents the exact opposite:
Dumb and weak Rei, something for this autist maybe:
>>2161768I took the whole thing rather poorly too, since Rei is my all-time favourite fictional anything and this was just straight up "we dont like Rei and don't want you or her to have nice things, in fact we want the opposite" and that was that.
From a birds-eye perspective, is there really anything that's been done better or more fulfilling than NGE or EoE for Rei? Every new EVA thing I saw has nearly nothing in it to be a fan of.
>>2161783If you want a love story, that's not what you'll get, but Shinji didn't have a GF at the end of 2.22. He had Rei, and a load of drama waiting to spill on him, and the story didn't end there it could have just begun. There is no next time, this was it too. It was promising, keyword was.
>Wetzher there's a connection between the two, and how it impacted Shinji's relationships with them are two pair of shoes. The implications and strong emphasis going further than the original is in itself a statement too clear to ignore. They chose to downsize Rei into a mother-clone role rather than work with the character itself. All that remains is "Rei, docile obedient clone of Yui".
Just think of everything they could have explored, all the sci-fi and even real terminology that's there to be exploited, but they chose the one that makes realistically the least sense, that she's a straight-up clone. Clone is easy to understand, because it effectively means "the same" to the audience.
Then there's not a single thought or word from Rei, meaning her character-portion is non-existing. She's only a mother-figure from this point on.
>If he were calling for his momHe's calling for Rei, but their names are the same. It's symbolic and metaphorical, which is what the deal is with this new movie.
