Reichu: Misato's car pulling between Shinji and the explosion at the last possible second… I think this is one of those deus ex machinaeToasty Frog loves to rant about.
Kendrix: Way to make a classic cool entrace à la Bond. The majority of episode 1 presents Misato as impossibly cool, hypercompetent and your perfect 21th century power-woman. Oh, she is certainly a nice discription of the life some women in our time live, but in a more realistic way... for once, the coolness gets discarded along with her shoes on the doorstep of her house.
A similar thing could be said about Ritsuko who's first shown as similarity hypercompetent, cool and a perfect rolemodel for every little girl... and then deconstructed to hell, but in a different way.
Misato is a realistic portrayal of some "modern" women our society produces with the more shadowy parts included ("You slut!", late /lack of marriage...) while our "cool solitary rational science woman" turns out to be rather submissive at heart... (even tough its a bit more complicated than that)
To go back to Misato, as far as Episode one goes, you might be forgiven to mistake her for the hot cool fanservice bond-girl-y sort of character, having the "warm", "experienced", oddly maternal kind of sexy to her and the looks to match: She's tanned, tall, assertive, humurous, huge hips, that "popular" kind of ass, relatively large boobs (well, by japanese standarts I guess) - She is the main source of boob-service until Mari comes along,(Rebuild still loves Misato's hips and ass)- the emphasis on Asuka's fairly modest chest is more Shinji's PoV / at least as much plot relevant as fancervice-ish.)
