InstrumentalityOne: Ritsuko looks pretty pissed in that cut.
You can already see that she doesn't really like Shinji that much.
thewayneiac: I don't know about that. There's no sign that she dislikes Shinji in scenes where they interact, for instance, this scene. She just seems determined to get the job done; it is an emergency after all.
InstrumentalityOne: But her way of telling Shinji what to do seemed almost motherly.
Can you see what I'm playing at?
thewayneiac: No, I must be missing something. How does her being motherly square with her not liking him?
InstrumentalityOne: Well, maybe I am looking to hard into this, but I always got the feel that Akagi is kind of jealous of the fact that "Shinji" is not her child she made with Gendo.
Her desire to act like his mother and being possessive of him is there IMO.
The fun part is that she's doing all that in front of Shogouki, lol.
