I just don't understand why the child soldier won't just get in the giant murder blood robot he doesn't know how to control, the robot that has a traumatizing neural interface which makes the pilot feel the pain of the robot's injuries. The one that also makes the robot go berserk and kill everyone nearby if he's not focused (happens multiple times). His abusive absentee dad said he needs to! Didn't he read the script??
Tbh it seems like the world partially ended already - plus I don't think shinji really gets the scope of the potential disaster right away. It's not like NERV & Gendo are transparent about the stakes and their goals...
Don't know how far into the series you are but from where you've mentioned watching to, without spoilers, I'll say that as it goes on there are a good few silly bits, a constant undercurrent of creepy perv stuff, and many many more examples of why Gendo is a fuckhead lol. I don't blame Shinji for finding him sus at all
His dad is just some asshole basically, you gotta put some effort in and have some charisma to indoctrinate a kid, Shinjis is basically a big walking billboard that he'd do anything for some verbal approval and a pat on the back and his dads too stubborn and dumb to even pick up on that being the clear play.
Look at real indoctrination of child soldiers. They will force children to murder, then nurture and “heal” them, and often times it’s their loved ones.
Evangelion, the TV show, was on TV so it had more restrictions. But I feel like their idea of indoctrination was getting Misato to sexually groom Shinji, which does happen IRL and is successful (see religion and cults), but usually not in the war context.
There’s a show called Jormungand which is about a child soldier being part of a PMC and dealing with his trauma and hatred of weapons. I’ve only seen a couple episodes, but I’m curious if the themes are similar to Evangelion. I just can’t take all the sci-fi/fantasy elements seriously in Eva.*
*A literal soul being captured by the living and used in technology is an interesting element though. The game Beyond Two Souls was terrible, but this was part of the climax, and somehow it made me cry while Eva did nothing but frustrate me
shinji is a child soldier though, the popular opinion of him sucking seems to forget that
I hope you enjoy it and eventually watch the remakes, it's all good stuff
I just don't understand why the child soldier won't just get in the giant murder blood robot he doesn't know how to control, the robot that has a traumatizing neural interface which makes the pilot feel the pain of the robot's injuries. The one that also makes the robot go berserk and kill everyone nearby if he's not focused (happens multiple times). His abusive absentee dad said he needs to! Didn't he read the script??
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Tbh it seems like the world partially ended already - plus I don't think shinji really gets the scope of the potential disaster right away. It's not like NERV & Gendo are transparent about the stakes and their goals...
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Don't know how far into the series you are but from where you've mentioned watching to, without spoilers, I'll say that as it goes on there are a good few silly bits, a constant undercurrent of creepy perv stuff, and many many more examples of why Gendo is a fuckhead lol. I don't blame Shinji for finding him sus at all
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His dad is just some asshole basically, you gotta put some effort in and have some charisma to indoctrinate a kid, Shinjis is basically a big walking billboard that he'd do anything for some verbal approval and a pat on the back and his dads too stubborn and dumb to even pick up on that being the clear play.
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Look at real indoctrination of child soldiers. They will force children to murder, then nurture and “heal” them, and often times it’s their loved ones.
Evangelion, the TV show, was on TV so it had more restrictions. But I feel like their idea of indoctrination was getting Misato to sexually groom Shinji, which does happen IRL and is successful (see religion and cults), but usually not in the war context.
There’s a show called Jormungand which is about a child soldier being part of a PMC and dealing with his trauma and hatred of weapons. I’ve only seen a couple episodes, but I’m curious if the themes are similar to Evangelion. I just can’t take all the sci-fi/fantasy elements seriously in Eva.*
*A literal soul being captured by the living and used in technology is an interesting element though. The game Beyond Two Souls was terrible, but this was part of the climax, and somehow it made me cry while Eva did nothing but frustrate me