dzzthink: As a follow-up to the watermelon scene, Kaji provides a great deal of wisdom. Perhaps this scene is foreshadowing something, or rather Kaji is warning Shinji about his father. Just when Shinji might finally begin developing an understanding of his father with their earlier interactions, there is a great amount of unknown that separates us from forming close relationships.
UrsusArctos: It might reveal Kaji's own failure or incapacity to understand women, and be an oblique admission of that failure. Kaji's small smile during this sequence seems...bitter? Insincere? Kaji talks about women being on "the other shore" but there is one character whose surname literally means "the shore" or "beach" and whose soul comes from an explicitly female being and who does connect with Shinji in a scene that visually evokes this...
