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Unlike the pilots, Ritsuko cannot re-enter the mother's body. She is "radically excluded" while needing to "bring the system up," as a mother. The obvious visual+narrative parallels reinforce this dilemma: to inhabit and inherit, while experiencing total rejection+separation.
girls with mommy issues understood this scene instinctively❤️ we went to therapy for it ❤️
i appreciate nge's near future setting w/ far future technologies: AI and advanced biotech, evolutionary accelerationism mixed w/ the aesthetics of techno-industrialism+gritty 1990s modernity-- clunky computer tech, trains, paper instead of digital interfaces, etc.
it is unclear when gendo raped ritsuko, either before the relationship or as an incident of domestic violence. but what is clear is that 1) it happened, and affects ritsuko's life outlook and 2) gendo knew ritsuko as a child, a fact ritsuko revisits during moments of idleness.
@qritsuko despite differences btwn shikinami/langley (shikinami avoids the 2.22 trip whereas langley wants to go in magma diver) her anti-japanese sentiment carries over, directed at rei. to that end, asuka successfully slaps rei in the show's elevator scene, but rei stops her in 2.22.
eva characters as sbux customers ⇀
shinji: grande ice water. never orders anything+v v polite. misato once made him try a green tea frapp w java chips, white mocha, peppermint, xtra matcha. he liked it, but doesnt know the recipe. baristas give him free stuff bc hes so shy