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|comment=}} | |comment=Even when showing Shinji and Misato the truth about Rei, Ritsuko omits a key truth that becomes evident in Episode 24' and End of Evangelion - Rei was born with a soul because she had the salvaged soul of ''Lilith'' in her, and that particular bit of information would be utterly devastating to both Shinji and Misato. Perhaps she's worried that telling them the truth about Lilith would be fatal for her? Additionally, while the English lines aren't quite in order here, Ritsuko isn't telling the full truth about Second Impact either. Even if Seele had initially intended to use Adam to achieve their artificial evolution goals, it's an established fact that they knew things were turn out disastrously by the time ''that'' experiment rolled around and Ritsuko would've known it. }} | ||
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|comment=}} | |comment=Even if we ignore her omissions, this explanation is a headache-inducing information turducken. Firstly, she frames the events of Second Impact in religious terms like a Seele true believer, and then breathlessly ties the creation and soul mechanics of Evas together with the birth of Rei, whilst also namedropping Guf, which is to this day just a big question mark really. Of course, this blather makes sense from a character writing standpoint when you consider Ritsuko's mental state after what she's been through, but it's also the sort of infodump that sends lore idiots like me playing with spreadsheets instead of fully immersing in the narrative and theme. | ||
Then again, there's a counterexample, the mid-1990s OVA ''Key the Metal Idol'', which also deals with some pretty heady metaphysical scifi concepts. Being somewhat of an experimental title with variable episode lengths, it chooses to explain its lore exhaustively with, I kid you not, an uninterrupted 90-minute- long exposition dump. While NGE is too vaguely minimalistic for my tastes when explaining its practical metaphysics (hence all the bonkers fandom misconceptions), I concede a more clear-cut mystery-annihilating explainer wouldn't fit the show's by this point aggressively oppressive atmosphere.}} | |||
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