A Human Work – Neon Genesis Evangelion S01E07

➡ In this podcast episode, the hosts discuss their love for the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion and the stigma of being an anime fan. They also talk about cultural differences between Japan and America, using examples like Sesame Street and the concept of ‘otaku’. The hosts also delve into the plot of a recent Evangelion episode, discussing its portrayal of government bureaucracy and the moral implications of using children in warfare. They end by appreciating the realism and complexity of the show’s characters and storylines.
➡ The text discusses a movie featuring intense bureaucracy scenes and giant monsters, drawing comparisons to other films like RoboCop and Demolition Man. It also explores the idea of using children to control giant robots, questioning the ethics of this approach. The text mentions a plot point about Antarctica and the potential for a third catastrophic event. It ends by discussing the strange normality of society in the post-apocalyptic setting of the movie.
➡ The text discusses the complexities of a TV series, focusing on the characters’ lifestyles and the show’s production details. It highlights the characters’ standard of living, their school life, and their interactions. The text also delves into the show’s production aspects, such as the use of real-life vehicle models and the incorporation of symbols into the show. Lastly, it explores the concept of startup routines, comparing them to the process of waking up and reorienting oneself to the world.
➡ The text discusses a humorous and entertaining episode of a show, where characters have quirky morning routines set to wacky music. It also talks about a government agency called Nerve, which is compared to the CIA and DARPA, and its secrets being leaked to the public. The text also mentions the operations director of Nerve, who is a functional alcoholic. The text ends with anticipation for the next episode, which is expected to be more intense.
➡ They never made an agreement, even though they’re not attractive, they’re still doing it.

So if anyone calls you a nerd because you’re wearing an Evangelion shirt, you just sit them down like you clearly haven’t seen episode seven. Let me tell you all about it. So fun fighting games at the Cartoon Cabal. Beyond what’s Just in the Name at the Cartoon Cabal. See, just at what Costco fame. At the Cartoon Cabal. So much for the fun and games at the Cartoon Cabal. Hello, welcome to the Cartoon Cabal, where we are having a run through all of the episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion. This is Matt here. It’s a paranoid American over there.

How is it? Are you saying I’m lazy? Did I say you were lazy? And messy, too. And messy. That’s right. And chugging beers right after you wake up. That is actually a traditional Japanese breakfast, as I understand it is a little miso, a little bit of, I don’t know, like a pork bun, and then you down two beers. Isn’t that typical? Actually, what? She’s. Of course, she can’t be completely wrong, right? There is a thing where people might have a very little thing of sake, which is considered like nihon shu saki. That’s considered like, there’s, like, medicinal, like, Chinese stuff.

So people might have a very small thing. If you go to a traditional inn, they’ll do that, you know? But, yeah, chugging two beers is probably frowned upon when you wake up in Japan. Well, she points that out, too. She points out, hey, this is typical. You eat. You drink sake in the morning. But she’s not drinking sake. She’s down in the cold beer. Right? Oh, before I get too deep, I did piss off my wife. We went to the Uniqlo, right? And they have the Sale T shirt. So they had this one, which I have.

So now I can do the podcast with the proper Eva T shirt here. Yeah, One. One Eva. We haven’t met yet on there. I guess that’s the one getting shipped in from Germany, maybe. But, yeah, when I went with my wife, she wouldn’t let me buy it. She was like, it’s too dorky. Right? So it is. So we’re gonna amp it up a little bit. She let me. Yeah, she let me buy this one. She said this one was not too dorky, which is Sesame Street. It’s Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on there. So she allowed me to buy that one.

Of course, I went back and got the Ava one, because I’m like, I have a podcast where I do Ava. I cannot wear it outside. I won’t wear it on the street. I won’t let anyone know how nerdy I am deep down. I also asked my daughter who did read the manga, like, which one is dorky or the Sesame street shirt or the EVA shirt. And she also did say that the Ava shirt was dorkier. So that’s interesting. I feel like in America you would say the Sesame street shirt is dorkier. Oh, man. Or am I just skewed in the head? You know, it’s a real close call.

I think that Ava skews older, but unless you see it and appreciate it, it definitely looks way dorkier from the outside. It’s just skinny anime girls and mech suits. That kind of feels like the height of nerdom. There’s a name for it, right? What’s the name for those guys that are all into this? Otaku. Otaku. So I don’t know. Otaku, I assume, means nerd in Japanese. Yeah. So I guess Sesame street doesn’t cross the otaku line. It’s just kind of like Sesame street can be nostalgic more than it can be for nerds. Well, the interesting thing in Japan is they don’t really watch Sesame street growing up, so they’re just characters.

That’s true for a lot of things in Japan. I even imagine there’s the real crew. Creepy otaku are probably like into Ava and never watched the show. You know, I. I promise you, if they have seen the show. Yeah, but. Right, but people just like no character. So like all my, all my students know the Cookie Monster, but they don’t really know the Cookie Monster. I don’t know what he acts like and stuff. Like, like he’s cute, right? No, no. He screams at you and then eats everything. So that’s the Cookie Monster. They don’t know the burden.

He’s a burden to his friends and family is the good way to put it. They know the image of Kermit the Frog, but they don’t know. They don’t really know anything about Kermit the Frog. So he’s a domestic abuse survivor. That’s right. So running the Muppet show work abuse too. Yeah, he gets it. He gets it from all ends. That’s kind of his role, right? Well, the Muppet Chilies don’t live with Miss Piggy, does he? They’re kind of a will they, won’t they? Sort of, you know, cross breeding animal couple. Although he definitely does get physically abused by her and a romantic connection there.

Whatever. They haven’t put A label on it, but she’s definitely committing abuse. Well, they get married in the Muppets Take Manhattan and they are divorced by the terrible mid 2010s Muppets series, which they tried to make it like the Office and now, you know, Kerman and Piggy is split up and the show sucks. So it’s that. That’s the Muppets nobody should watch. Why am I talking about Muppets that much? Oh, because of the otaku stuff. And here we are. Otaku Ava. Yeah. So I think, yeah, I think Ava still wins out on the nerd scale. I don’t personally think it’s.

It’s technically a nerdy movie, but I can absolutely see that from the outside. So I, I should listen to my family about what’s. What’s dorky and what’s not. Although, again, I. Even in Japan I was like, I’m not gonna go down the street with a neighbor shirt, but I’m gonna wear it for this podcast. Of course, of course. I mean, you have to. What was your take on this episode? Just out of curiosity. I liked it. I think this is the least annoying that Shinji has been so far. Maybe he takes a little agency. What’s that? He takes a little agency.

For once he isn’t just shoved into a neighbor, you know. Well, and we hear that too from Rey because she. She tells him or she says, hey, I kind of like that he’s talking back a little bit now. He’s actually kind of growing into his own. I doubt he’s gonna keep that up, but we’ll see. Yeah, yeah, he actually acts like a normal character for once. Yeah. Well, again, in previous episodes I do. I am saying, like he’s one of the more realistic characters, so you still have to contend with that. But I also like. So he might be less realistic in this one because he isn’t just acting like a dumb 14 year old, but dumb 14 year olds, of course, can step up to the plate when need be.

Some of this was realistic too. The. The other main plot point in this whole episode is essentially that there’s another government contractor that has some kind of sweetheart deal with a senator, whatever you want to call them, like, like a official government representative. And he’s making this case that the Avas are dangerous. They’re putting these children, the children’s hearts are at risk. They’ve use children’s hearts to guide these things, which is actually technically true. And he’s got somebody that basically is going to replace the Ava’s and they’re all just remote control. And the whole episode ties around the political game in which AVA has to justify its funding and its practices and ultimately it goes haywire.

The guy is demoing this new technology with his remote and it immediately loses comms. And then they have to use the AVAs to stop this other contractors sort of fake EVA pseudo AVA. So I don’t know. I like the premise of this because this seems pretty realistic that, you know, the. The best option is not being used because someone else in government can make a buck off of it. And then it even shows all of the stupid government bureaucracy where they have to get permission in order to shut down, you know, their remote control ava. And the guy’s like, okay, well, let me call this guy that’s high up and that guy’s playing golf and he’s like, submit it in writing.

And then the guy has to go back and say he’s going to submit in writing and get permission from three or four. Meanwhile, the Nerve team, they’re so small and nimble and basically they’re showing that there’s way less government oversight as to what Nerve’s doing. So they’re ultimately selling you on the Patriot Act. They’re just saying, like, let us take care of it. Don’t let it go through Congress. Don’t let it go through all these different government channels where it’s all documented and has checks and balances. Just let us put these 14 year olds in the mech bodies and call it a day.

That’s right. And yeah, that is Japanese bureaucracy for sure. Shangodzilla also makes a lot of use out of that. Where that movie is fun in that all of the Godzilla scenes are like big, wide, slow shots of Godzilla moving through the city. And then all of the bureaucracy scenes are shot with lots of edits and going crazy like action scenes. And then most of the movie is these crazy bureaucracy scenes, which might make the movie sound horrible, but it’s good recommend Shin Godzilla. Except for the first few stages of Godzilla, which is crap. CG Final Stage looks good, but the first couple do look like crap in that movie, unfortunately, which also, hey, AVA connection.

You know, you got Anno involved with that so well. And we’re essentially talking all Kaiju, right? Yeah, we’re talking all Kaiju all the time. No mechs in that one, though. That’s just Godzilla. But yeah, that’s kind of like the whole Shin thing. Like he was like, let’s, you know, in 10 years ago or 10 to 15 years ago, they were remaking AVA. So I was like, hey, let’s remake Godzilla, let’s remake Ultraman. Let’s remake what else they do. Common Rider, all this stuff. So I mean in, in my mind I realize that there’s differences, but it’s all kind of the same thing where you talk about, I don’t know if it’s Ultraman, Ultraman and Godzilla and Power Rangers and Ava and Voltron.

You can kind of just put them all in the same category. It was these big city building sized mechs or building sized monsters that are fighting kind of like the rampage video game. Yeah. And somehow it just seems like the goal or Anno’s goal is like let’s make all of this next stuff like, you know, serious. That seems to then Kaiju serious. That seems to be kind of like his goal in life or something. Yeah. The message that I got from this particular episode is that it really does take the heart of a child in order to be these fallen angels.

And that not, not just that this soulless, brainless, heartless, remote controlled mech can’t do the job because technically that could be piloted. But I think they’re saying that it needs to, to be a one for one ratio here. It can’t be controlled remotely and it can’t be controlled by an adult. It has to be the heart and the mind of a young child, a 14 year old kid. And for some reason that is going to probably end up revealing a really important factor and why no other solution works other than this. Now, discounting the part you just mentioned where we’re using kids, I did write my notes near them like, and not, not as in a critical way, it’s different enough.

But I was like, isn’t this the plot of RoboCop, the other company or the other department? And RoboCop has the ED 209 which is, you know, completely mechanical. So of course RoboCop has to come in a take down a berserk ED 209. I’m like, well that’s, that’s the plot here. Now they, and they don’t shoot the president of the other company and have them flying out a window in this one. So that’s a difference. But they do sort of hint at the ethics of this because again, you can see that the, the other contractor he’s leaning into.

Look at how horrible this is. You’re running this off of children. Like real children are going to get hurt in these big AVA suits. And that’s why our solution is so much better, blah, blah, blah. But he’s got a point. Right? Like, would you rather have robocops running around where they’ve actually taken a human being and merged them with technology and that’s going to be the police, or would you rather have just a straight up robotic dog creature that acts as all police? So you have to pick one of the two. It’s either half human, half mech, or all mechanics.

And the human part’s getting somewhat. At least they’re getting ptsd, if nothing else. Correct. Yeah, there’s. That. There’s absolutely pain and mental trauma involved, regardless. Okay, well, let’s take the RoboCop’s a little weirder, though, and that. It’s like we’re taking this guy that has died and we’re basically resurrecting him into this robot unwillingly wiping his memory. Yeah. So that’s kind of creepier than the EVA stuff, even if they are 14. Yeah. I mean, Demolition man is sort of similar, although he doesn’t get any biomech upgrades. But it’s kind of the same thing. Of course, we also, the other big thing in this episode is they’re lying to you about Antarctica, which, you know, that’s like, you know, a little golf clap when that starts happening, and then you get a golf scene.

Right. So standard fare. But also they’re showing that. I personally believe that the. The deeper thinking and the links to esoteric stuff. Maybe they’re still just pulling up crumpled pieces of paper out of a hat and mixing them up. It’s like, hey, guys, we drew the Antarctica tab today. I guess that’s going into episode seven. But I. I do appreciate, because it’s holographically starting to put Ava in the world. All this is happening into, like, a more and more defined show. Right. Well, and this is, for me, like, rereading the plot. I’m not. I don’t remember if they specifically said in the episode or not, but the first impact is how the moon is formed.

The second impact is this thing 15 years ago which, you know, has drowned the world and melted Antarctica. And the third impact is what they’re, you know, trying to avert at this point. There was also one line that stood out. And it’s another thing the contractor was saying, and he says, quote, you know, AVAs are this weapon that can run out of control. And a weapon that cannot be controlled is like a hysterical woman completely out of control. I wrote that down, too. The reason I wrote it down is Japanese politicians say this kind of crap all the time.

And I mean, just this week, someone had to step down because they said something stupid. A few weeks ago they got a new like Minister of Agriculture because the old one was like saying how people can just eat chicken feed for rice because there’s like a rice crisis in Japan for. I guess we’re still in it, but I don’t eat that much rice myself. But yeah, he was like, people just eat chicken rice or something and. Or no, he say, God, all his rice for free. That’s what it was. Someone else called the rice chicken feed and he said he got all his rice for free because farmers would just give him rice.

So that pissed everyone off. And then that one’s not sexist. But plenty of that comes out too. So that’s just the most recent example. Is this something that you might have actually heard in Japanese court in the 90s, mid-90s last week is what I’m saying. We’ve had politicians say it’s like a woman in hysterics. Like probably, you know, this year this one doesn’t really have any major battles going on and it doesn’t have any other really esoteric links to it. But you mentioned that there was some interesting production stuff behind the scenes that we can break down.

Well, yeah, and one of the things I was going to say is this was not a well received episode. Like it’s. Some people call this the worst one. They’re like, you know, it’s filler. But I was like, I don’t know, I guess pulling the Antarctica card made me happy. So. Because I like that stuff. So that pushed it up a little bit. And yeah, if this is the worst that it gets, then that’s promising. Yeah. Like, what was it? Episode four was the one where it’s like, it was good, but like really nothing happened. Like, oh, something had.

It’s a side story, but I think you do need this context. It’s world building. This is a good world building episode. And episode seven can be a world building episode. Why not? You know, I mean, I think they’re just showing that even though they. We’ve. We’ve been seeing nerve act with pretty much no oversight, no one’s like, hey, wait a minute, you have to get approval for to do this. They’ve just been running on autopilot a little bit. And this one just shows that they do still live in this world where government bureaucracy is still technically something that might kill us.

Like that. Like this could have destroyed the human race if this contractor had gotten his way. So I guess even now the economy matters. Like Papa still needs to Get a nice new sports car even in this apocalyptic afterlife. Well, we. I’ve discussed before how I just feel. It feels so weird that everything in, you know, like, society is basically running as it is. Like, post apocalypse, which I had a conversation. What were we watching? Some Highlander 2. I was watching Highlander 2 for one of my other podcasts, where the. They have another 15 years post apocalypse future, or might be more than that, but generally the same vibe, but their society is grimy, dirty.

It’s falling apart. And I was actually talking to my co host there, who likes Ava a lot, and I was like. And he was saying he actually likes the Ava one because, like, yeah, people. There’s an apocalypse, people just ignore as much as they can and get on with themselves. Or in Highlander too. I was like, well, yeah, but there’s that. I feel like Ava should have, like, a little more degrade of, I don’t know, standard of living or something, which it doesn’t. They should be rock stars. Yeah. They should be living in mansions and afforded all of the luxuries of life.

So there’s literally nothing else for them to worry about. Yeah. I mean, they’re sending Shinji into the, you know, the local public school, right. Which does seem to have students. Again, a giant cube is crashed in Tokyo 3. We saw that in one of the first shots and. But all the kids came back to school. That’s weird. But he’s also the coolest kid in school now because he lives with this hot drunk that drives drunk and just shows up and slams her car into the parking spots. Right? And they don’t care about the saving the. The world part.

I mean, they know about that too. They just don’t care about that part. It’s. It’s living with Masato that gets them, isn’t it? Well, I mean, they’re. They’re teenagers. What do you want? Yeah, exactly. Other. This inch. Another thing that stuck out is this was in the proposal for the series, like, several years before the thing came together. So this is actually in, like, ground floor content. I guess it’s. Maybe this is like the series bible just being put into an episode, you know? I mean, everything does make more sense now about how things are running.

It just grounds it a little bit more. So if this episode gives us a chance to take a breath and it’s not all just like weird, abstract technical jargon and new names of angels that have fallen down to the ground, that we have to kind of figure out what their roles are, this one is. Is very Much like a behind the scenes. Like by the way, everything operating now is human. So I don’t know. I appreciate a slowdown in pace. This is kind of cleansing the palette a little bit. So I. It’s going to get real crazy next.

And we do also sort of learn. Yes, there are other countries that are still running normally like Germany, America. Because it wasn’t clear if. You know, it’s like Japan is like the only nation that’s still here, you know, that’s not clear until this episode because there is. I. I think in Space Battleship Yamato, it’s like there’s only Japan now. So it’s like, are they going to go with that? Which is one of the reasons I was so confused by society being like kind of as together as it is in the series. I was like, well, where is Germany? Oh, Germany’s making the next ava.

Okay, got it. America’s probably doing great at this point. We haven’t seen what America’s up to. Well, what do they say? They say a few things that. Oh yeah, that’s the only one that hasn’t approved the budget for the new AVAs, but they’ll probably do it and something they’re addicted to unemployment or something that they say everyone’s on welfare in the. In the apocalypse of. Of usa. Yeah, yeah. It sounds like they’re kind of referring to that. So that was a little. That’s like the most political commentary I feel like we’ve gotten, you know. Well, everything else is looking at in the mirror.

It’s Japanese stuff. But yeah, that. That little one offline of America’s addicted to unemployment definitely stood out. Yeah. Yeah. Our AVAs are just all like EBT created with EBT goods. Right. Moving on through some of this production stuff in the general. What’s this? The Gendo’s office again? Do’s office. There. There is a whole bunch of stuff on the ceiling and floor. There’s like cosmological stuff on the floor. There’s an artery of life on the top. I mean that’s literally throwing stuff at the wall or the ceiling in the floor. In this case, it’s literally throwing stuff at the ceiling and the floor.

But just knowing that they are putting in the show proper and not necessarily just in the credits. Yeah, I appreciate that because it shows that even if it’s not going to be fully explained that even the characters themselves have an interest in these symbols. It’s not like you said, it’s not just in the intro, which I guess goes a little bit of A way get like a 2% of the way. Since we are seeing less DARPA style or nerve style insanity in this episode, they went out of their way to make more real life vehicles. Like the SSTO spacecraft of Ferrari 328.

An American Northrop YB49 prototype jet powered heavy bomber. Wow. Okay. That’s a very specific. No, they changed their mind to use the North American XB70 Valkyrie. Okay. So it’s just they got really like kind of vehicle geek and vehicle otaku in this episode for whatever reason. Valkyrie. That’s actually pretty cool that they modeled it after actual things. But I guess again because they’re grounding it in reality and separating themselves from this weird abstract nerd. So if anyone calls you a nerd because you’re wearing an Evangelion shirt, you just sit them down like you clearly haven’t seen episode seven.

Let me tell you all about it. I don’t know. I have to realistic on this shirt. I just have. There’s. There’s a bunch of text on this shirt. Main power complete. Affirmative. Initiating level something. Connect interface system. Connect a 10 nerve connect achieve status green. LCL ionization levels normal. Sorry, I just have to start reading the shirt. That should do the trick. Yeah, and then they’ll be like, I stand corrected. I stand corrected. This is big boy content. Yes. Where was I going with that? I don’t remember. So yeah, I started reading my shirt and it wiped my brain.

Which I guess a checklist, a sci fi checklist will kind of like wipe your brain out a bit. Honestly, if you ever stare at your phone starting up or your computer or certain programs where you have to save and you know, it goes through a certain number of little progress bars and then a message and then more progress bars. It turns into a legitimate ritual where your mind just kind of travels to another place a little bit and you just stare at the. The sands of time kind of going through the hourglass in a way. So I don’t know, I feel that this is like a.

It enters a trance like state by getting all those startup and initiation messages. So Shinji gets inside the AVA and you start seeing all the things that are starting to like orient and calibrate to the world. That in itself is the same ritual that he keeps going through. And just to tie in the. The human tech connection while you’re saying that, I was like, don’t, don’t we kind of do that. Now tell me if it’s just me, but every once in a while I’ll wake Up, especially in summer, because the sun comes up, like, four in the morning now.

But, you know, I’ll be up early in the morning, not quite sleeping, not quite dreaming, and I’ll just be doing some weird, repetitive task that makes no sense once I wake up, you know, like, oh, I have to move my foot here, and I have to move it here to do this. And I’m like, is that kind of our startup routine like that? I mean, Tony Blair used to wake up and draw an actual magic circle and stand inside of it and think about his intents for the day. So I feel. But he intentionally did that.

I’m talking about something where you’re kind of unconsciously doing this weird task because you’re not fully awake. I think you got to harness it. I think that if you’re doing that, it means that your body is aching to. To figure out an actual ritual. And it’s. And it’s expressing itself in ways that are letting you know. Like, you need to start drawing a magic circle. I don’t have room for a magic circle in this room. I have to go to a different room. I probably have to go outside. Japanese houses have small rooms. I feel like a magic circle.

It only has to be big enough to fit your two feet in it. That’s it. Yeah. Okay. There we go. I have to start magic circling. But. But, yeah, I think I’m just trying to tie in the bio with the tech. And I’m like, do we kind of have startup routines to reorient ourselves with the world? Because at first I was like, well, no. I want, like, the dreaming’s like, another dimension. And so going between Bardos. But then the reconnecting with this world thing, I’m just like, hey, I think we do have startup routines. At least I do.

At least you’ve got a little more control in this world. Even if you were to get into lucid dreaming, the difficulty in order to keep consistency in a lucid dream would be insane. Like, it would be much harder if they could only pilot the Avas in a lucid dream state. Excuse me, I’m just looking through my notes here and just a few more of my notes. The home music is entertainingly ridiculous. I like how they show their morning routine with that insane music. So I’m not even sure I was paying attention to the music. It was just this really wacky music.

And we have three home routines starting, so it happens three times. The penguins reading the newspaper the first time. And the third time, Misato is chugging her beer. The Second time, maybe she’s not because she’s going to Tokyo, old Tokyo for business and she’s bummed out. Right. So. But they still play the music and then she’s like a buzzkill when she shows up in her black suit. Okay, yeah, yeah, no, it’s. It sounds like 90s montage music. A little bit like sitcom montage music. I actually, I actually really appreciated it. Yeah. Just hit some goofy thing where like, it, like, usually that thing might be like a little annoying.

And in this case I was like, okay, this actually is like entertaining. I also like, just in the fact that this episode points out because usually it’s like the government knows this and the people don’t, but here they’re like, yeah, most of our secrets have slipped out. You know, Intelligence sucks. Well, that actually happened because the guy mentioned that they kept running into this AT field and she’s like, how do they know that? And it’s because there’s a leak somewhere in Nerve. Nerve is leaking stuff into the government sphere. And then the government is just leaking that out into the public to kind of show that they’ve got the inside scoop on stuff.

Which all pretty. Again, sounds pretty realistic. Right. So I’m just contrasting that with a lot of media where it’s like, now the government really knows this stuff. And there’s like one, you know, the one guy in his freaking trailer that knows. Right. We’re here. It seems like people generally now know what an AT field is, you know, kind of. Well, and I’m getting the impression that Nerve is definitely some sort of government agency. There’s no way that they have the clearance and the resources to do what they’re doing if they’re not some sort of CIA, Pentagon level, but that there’s other government agencies that are not coordinating with them.

Not even. They are even antagonistic towards Nerve. So this is kind of the same story as DEA versus FBI versus ATF versus whatever. Right. I guess technically Nerve. I don’t know. Would it be CIA if you’re fighting intergalactic? Because CIA is supposed to be international. I keep saying DARPA for them because it’s all the tech stuff, right? I guess, yeah. DARPA is more of like a scientific archive of all these different projects. So I think there are cross discipline and cross branch coordination when it comes to darpa, because DARPA is just dod, which encompasses everything. To me, Nerve is almost like the combination of like a DARPA and the CIA in a way.

Yeah. Which I guess you wouldn’t need that until you have Angel Angels attacking. Right. So it’s. Maybe it’s just a particular strain of government that maybe we do not currently have because we don’t have Kaiju. There has to be an actual government plan somewhere in the archives. It’s like if fallen Nephilim come to Earth and they start, you know, destroying everything and we find out that only 14 year old hearts can battle them. Here’s what we’re gonna do. And I’m sure that someone’s been paid at least a few hundred thousand dollars to kind of plan all this out and just come up with contingencies.

And then my, my one bit of snark just at the end of the episode, of course, Shinji gets Misato into this AWOL mech. And she’s trying. She has. She’s been given the password. It doesn’t work. And you know, my first thought is. Is the caps on maybe. Does she check that? Could be. Maybe make the H big and the other letter small. I know you like another beer. That sounds like the solution. Yeah, yeah, she just slammed a beer into that. She doesn’t drink on the job, it seems. It’s. It’s like all the 60s musicians, really.

No, no, they weren’t on drugs in the studio. They were just on drugs the rest of the time. I’m sure they’re on drugs in the studio a few times. That’s why the music was good. And that’s what keep. That’s what keeps the edge off for her. And again, it seems that in these circumstances you might allow your pilots to play outside, like color outside the lines a little bit. Right. Well, she’s the ops director in this case also. Yeah. Her table at the, at the corporate dinner or whatever was. Everyone else had food and there’s just had like, you know, the beer, so.

And they kept just having shots of that over and over. They kept having shots of the bottles while, while, while the. This corporate guy’s giving his speech. Yeah. So the ops director of this darpa, CIA, atf, I guess, group that is in charge of saving the human race is just a raging drunk and everyone knows it. And she drives drunk up to a school and wearing like nothing but a nightie and then grabs Shinji and drives back over to the nerve headquarters, like. And this is, this is acceptable? Well, she’s really good at her job. Right.

She’s a very functional drunk. Which is. I’m. What I’m saying is that if everything is on the line, then maybe you let people play into their vices a little bit because it’s not like you can say or else because what’s gonna show up? Well, I guess another clone. I guess that’s the answer. Another clone. Do you have any thoughts you want to throw on this one before we wrap it up again? If. If this is supposed to be the slow episode, then I guess it’s about to get really insane, so I’m looking forward to it. Okay, well, we will go ahead and see what’s insane next week or tomorrow.

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