>>3557497It wasn't just all of the weird shit surrounding Shinji though. Humanity turning into failures of infinity after the time skip impact, Asuka becoming some weird angel-human hybrid after Bardiel, SEELE being literal tanged soup functioning inside mechanical monoliths, the whole anti-L barrier inside evas with the pilots potentially becoming non-human for crossing it, Shinji going full Rei/Kaworu mode with red eyes and albino skin to save Rei at the end of 2.0, the musical notes going on with the FAR glyphs, shit like pic-related from Until You Come To Me, among other things.
It's shit like that which really makes me wonder if Anno (or at least someone on the writing team,) had a plan, but either Anno chickened out and scrapped it at the last minute, or just stopped giving a fuck and didn't care anymore. There was too much build-up for it not to be something important down the line.
>>3557506Yeah it was fun while it lasted. The Shinji/Eve stuff might've been a reach, but the rest of of the presented speculation seemed pretty legit. Even NGE followed through with the instrumentality/LCL/angel communication stuff mattering in the long run.
