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I vaguely remember an ancient (and crazy) theory that Yui's ahead of the old geezers because her time in Eva-01 allowed her, Dr. Manhattan-style, to live her life in a nonlinear fashion and that this extended to her Lilin existence, and she can "go with the flow" because she already knows how that'll work out. | I vaguely remember an ancient (and crazy) theory that Yui's ahead of the old geezers because her time in Eva-01 allowed her, Dr. Manhattan-style, to live her life in a nonlinear fashion and that this extended to her Lilin existence, and she can "go with the flow" because she already knows how that'll work out. | ||
On the balance, I'd say Yui benefits from a lack of backstory in exactly the same way as Seele. By being a cipher it really is hard to pin down her motivations, good or bad, and it leaves it to the viewer to try to piece something together from the scraps that we are given, utterly unlike the deep dives we get with Shinji, Misato, Asuka and Rei. | On the balance, I'd say Yui benefits from a lack of backstory in exactly the same way as Seele. By being a cipher it really is hard to pin down her motivations, good or bad, and it leaves it to the viewer to try to piece something together from the scraps that we are given, utterly unlike the deep dives we get with Shinji, Misato, Asuka and Rei. We get moments where her behavior seems bizarre and even sociopathic, but on the other side we have powerfully maternal moments that seem to throw any such notion out of the window. We have no choice but to accept Yui as the strange constellation of contradictions that her actions present, rather than get to truly know her. | ||
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