Neon Genesis Evangelion: Sickness unto death, and... / Splitting of the Breast   First Watch 
July 12, 2019 7:50 PM - Season 1, Episode 16 - Subscribe

A bizarre Angel possessing a spherical shadow in the air and a Dirac sea-type body on the ground absorbs Shinji and EVA-01. While NERV searches for a means of destroying the Angel--even if that means killing Shinji as well--Shinji languishes inside the entry plug, pondering his role as a pilot and his relationship with the people in his life.
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit (6 comments total)
 
If you thought a polyhedral angel was odd, or a nanomachine angel was just a little too out there, now it's Leliel! It's microns thick, shows up as a spot on the ground, and its shadow is a zebra-patterned sphere floating in the air!

Just what the hell ARE Angels anyway? And what did NERV create to fight them!?
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 7:57 PM on July 12, 2019 [3 favorites]


This was one of my favorite episodes back when all I had were the VHS tapes. I don't know why. Maybe it's how menacing this angel is? And it's also one of those episodes where we learn more about Evas...
posted by Kutsuwamushi at 9:48 PM on July 12, 2019 [4 favorites]


Shinji has his one moment when he decides to be badass. And, because he's Shinji, things don't go that well for him.
posted by SPrintF at 6:11 AM on July 13, 2019 [5 favorites]


Just what the hell ARE Angels anyway? And what did NERV create to fight them!?

Ritsuko and Misato both wondering exactly this after Unit 01 goes berserk and tears apart the weird physical representation of an abstract concept from theoretical physics from the inside is one of the best brief moments in the show. Not only because, well, YEAH WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE THINGS? But also because the specific questions they ask themselves are so revealing. Especially Ritsuko, who says something like, "What did we copy?"

Shinji has his one moment when he decides to be badass. And, because he's Shinji, things don't go that well for him.

Obviously Nerv just needs to add chloroform to the LCL mixture so he goes unconscious at the start of every angel fight. Unit 01 seems to do better without him.

To blatantly steal a talking point from the Waypoints episode: Who's Shinji talking to, anyway? I always kind of figured he was talking to Unit 01, but he could be talking to himself or the angel as well. Maybe all three, at different points in that scene?
posted by tobascodagama at 8:02 AM on July 13, 2019 [2 favorites]


Misato's plan seems like total overkill. "We'll drop almost 1000 N2 mines on the shadow/Dirac sea thingy, while Unit-00 and Unit-02 disrupt it with their AT fields for a millisecond. Then we'll detonate all the mines simultaneously, which will somehow result in recovering Unit-01!"

It's no Operation Yashima, that is for sure!

I would hate to be a street cleaner in Tokyo-3, that's for sure.
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 8:18 PM on July 13, 2019 [1 favorite]


Ah fuck, is Unit 01 Shinji’s mother? WARF
posted by rodlymight at 8:24 AM on July 14, 2019 [1 favorite]


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