Theory and Analysis Talk:Rei and the Moon

Thanks, Wayne. Will get to this shortly... --UrsusArctos 18:58, 8 February 2008 (PST)

Is this any better? In the old arrangement, images were all over the place...this one might not be the best, but we could explain the images on a case-by-case basis. --UrsusArctos 19:07, 8 February 2008 (PST)

Yeah, that's a lot better. The Imagebox you were using yesterday was leaving a big empty white space on the bottom 2/3 of the screen due to there being too little text. Everything is filled in nicely now. As for the images being all over the place, they looked fine on my computer, but I've had this problem before. Images that display exactly where I want them to on Explorer, go all haywire on other browsers like Foxfire. --thewayneiac 22:42 EST. Feb. 09, 2008

Question

Could this article be given a more vague title so the "Asuka and the Sun" stuff that was posted on the forums be included all in one place? (and whatever other planetary associations come up later).

Also, what category does this fall under? Should it be in Religious References or be a part of Theory and Analysis? --(Zugzwang)

"Asuka and the sun", you notice, doesn't last that long. Just the first couple of episodes, mainly, and Asuka's solar association fades away. While Rei was directly involved in the moon's creation- which is why the moon is always shown in regard to her, Asuka is associated with the sun mostly because of her "fiery" personality and her polar opposition to Rei. It's Rei's association and not Asuka's that matters. I think this should be T and A. --UrsusArctos 15:37, 9 February 2008 (PST)

Asuka's association with the sun, which I actually picked up on myself and noted in the "Analysis" section of Episode 08 (I didn't see the forum thread but its an obvious motif so I picked it up independently), is indeed present but not nearly as developed as "Rei and the Moon" and doesn't really "graduate" into full "Theory and Analysis". Yes this is both Theory and Analysis and "Religious reference" I guess (if you consider the Moon religious). "Religious references" is kind of a subset of Theory and Analysis. At any rate, UA is correct: Asuka's association with the Sun is just a visual motif for her fiery personality, and isn't used nearly as often as Rei and the Moon is. Rei and the Moon is a hint about Lilith, and is used pervasively. It does merit mention in the Episode Guide and Asuka pages and such, but there's just not enough to merit a full analysis article. We should make a footnote of it in this "Rei and the Moon" article though, something just like "Asuka is also paired with the Sun, a motif showing how she's the exact opposite of Rei" or somesuch. --V 09:45, 10 February 2008 (PST)