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Content rating: 8
Posted 2003-03-06 by StupendousMan Endorsed by Cacophanus on 2003-04-15 02:52:00
After a weak disc four,
the fifth entry in the Evangelion
series brings the show back to its previous level of
excellence. We begin to see at last some of the
deep secrets which have been lurking just below
the surface of the story since its start.
Warning: spoilers follow!
I
really
wasn't
kidding
so
don't
read
any
more
to
preserve
the
surprise.
Well, I had recently realized that there was probably
some connection between the age of the three Eva
pilots (about fifteen or sixteen years old) and
the fifteen years since the Second Impact. Coincidence?
I think not. I had also been wondering just
what -- not who -- Rei was.
We still don't know the answer ... but it's becoming
clear that she is something more than (less than?)
human, and tied in some way with the Angels.
But what exactly is the connection?
We begin to see deeper aspects of some of the other
characters, too: Yoji is playing a very dangerous
game, working both for NERV and for the Japanese
government. Just which side owns his true allegiance?
Or, perhaps, does either? His snooping has also
opened Katsuragi's eyes: she is starting to smell
something rotten in the state of Denmark.
Her realization that Ritsuko -- perhaps her best
friend, and certainly one of her very few friends --
has been hiding information from her must hurt her
deeply. I think that her role in this drama is
becoming more and more clear: she's the good
person, the Everyman, trying to reconcile human
decency with the desperate measures required to
fight the Angels. Unlike all the other people in
positions of power, she may be willing to give
her sense of humanity priority in this struggle.
As for Shinji and Asuka, I maintain even more
strongly than before: they are the perfect
brother and sister at heart. They get on each
other's nerves, they suffer together the teasing
of their peers, but they really do love each other.
Not that way, as an incident on this disk
makes clear, but the same way I love my sister
and brother. It's so sweet.
The Fourth Child is revealed at the end of the
final episode of this disk. I have a very, very
bad feeling about him; my "Red Shirt" meter is going
off the scale, especially since we learn that the
class representative is sweet on him. Sigh.
He's a good man. But in Evangelion,
that may not be enough.
Equipment used when writing this review:
Sony DVD player, stereo speakers, JVC 27-inch television.
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