UrsusArctos: The various shots of Shinji's past and facing Eva-01 actually hint at the opposite. Misato says she wants revenge for her father so she can be free of him. However, as much as Shinji hates his father (like Misato hated hers), he's seeking to connect to the father who abandoned him. The last shot with the French and Russian Seele committee members is weird since, unlike all the other shots, it's from Gendo's perspective and there's no way Shinji could relate to it.
