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| | {{FGC:Comment|name=Reichu|comment= I've often wondered about those myself… This is actually the only time they are seen. He does have [[:Image:Sachielback.jpg|six holes]] in his dorsal carapace, so apparently they each contain a source of bioluminescence.}} | | {{FGC:Comment|name=Reichu|comment= I've often wondered about those myself… This is actually the only time they are seen. He does have [[:Image:Sachielback.jpg|six holes]] in his dorsal carapace, so apparently they each contain a source of bioluminescence.}} |
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| − | {{FGC Comment|name=Kendrix|comment= A ruined city left to the Elements always speaks for itself, it is always a monument of humanity being defeated by forces greater than themselves, even if it might be the humans themselves who unleashed this forces... especially to the Japanese who are constantly threatened by Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Tsunamis and what not... The Level of Crazy preparedness Nerv displays (and the technology levels they have) might not look that futuristic to the technology-savvy, crazy-prepared Japanese. Remember that big earthquake that hit the country recently? Not a single train derailed and all the elevators had automatically moved to the ground floor and deactivated. Most damage came from the Tsunami, because, there's only so much you can do against everything being submerged under three stories of water. - in fact, the many backup systems and technological wonders that we in Germany use to dispose of our used water made me think of the way Nerv happens to have special equipment for every possible situation. This shot is quick to establish that some catastrophe has taken place and we're in for something post-apocalyptic. (Or rather, as the existence if working helicopters suggests, something post-post apocalyptic, since civilization has had the time to rebuild which is, in itself, one of the many subversions of known conventions we're going to see here. ) | + | {{FGC Comment|name=Kendrix|comment= A ruined city left to the Elements always speaks for itself. This shot is quick to establish that some catastrophe has taken place and we're in for something post-apocalyptic. |
| − | The flooded buildings, a staple of Evangelion, also showcase the fragility of the world as we know it. Humanity has always been somewhat obsessed with the apocalypse, every day, people find new reasons to preach that the end of the world is near, perhaps because we subconsciously prefer to end with a bang to a whimper, or because, as this very show later points out, humans are about the only creatures capable of hating themselves. This show with its constant threat of "pop end of the world" and subtler, all the more scarier hints that humanity is dying (the birth rates decreasing, "the room of Gauf is empty", the constant mysterious ramblings about how the Instrumentality Project is the only hope... diffuse backgruond things you can't fight with Mechas and oversized knives), of course, taps into that sentiment, (Don't the sunken cities make you think of all that horror scenarios about Global Warming?... And let's not even start about the fanaticts and conspiracies (SEELE)) but ultimately criticizes it, not by denying that the problems of this world are there and partially our own fault, but by telling us to accept responsibility and face the problem while, at the same time, being a love poem to human ingenuity, adaptability, endurance and willpower.
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| − | Here, we also see the tendency of modern writers to include a big cataclysmic event in the back story of their setting, roughly as far away in the past as WWII is to make said setting relatable - now, WWII is much further from the 90s than SI is from the series's main timeline, but since Shinji is Anno's sort-of avatar, the WWII-like event and its temporal distance would have to suit that of Anno's generation. (He thinks most of them still behave like brats, anyway)
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| − | Again, here we see the typical Sci-Fi tactic of creating a fantastic analogue to a real world issue to dissect certain aspects of it in peace - What the following 26 episodes and 6 movies will try to make a point about is not WWII itself (For Anno beat that particular horse to death in "Nadia") but rather, the sort of society that Japan has brought forth after it, thus, the disaster in the past was made a neutral, force-of-nature like catastrophe (or, as we shall find out, the result of rather fantastic/abstract plotting) so that the story can deal with the post-catastrophe society alone
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