UrsusArctos: The various shots of Shinji's past and facing Eva-01 actually hint at the opposite. Misato says she wants revenge for her father so she can be free of him. However, as much as Shinji hates his father (like Misato hated hers), he's seeking to connect to the father who abandoned him. The last shot of Gendo's back with the French and Russian Seele committee members is out-of-place and weird: Shinji never meets the committee, and what relevance would they have to him?
Zusuchan: I feel like these various shots are a slight tease of the show getting darker and closer to the strange, dark weirdness usually associated with Eva.
