Third Child - just note that most of the random things said about Hideaki Anno (mastermind of EVA) are ludicrous and/or false. He never went insane, died, or lives in the mountains. He's married now, and he's living pretty normally I guess. He still does projects, though I think the last anime he did was directing Kare Kano.
As for the whether he had mental issues or not, which isn't a ludicrous question - I'm
pretty certain Anno went through deep serious depression either while working on Evangelion or directly before working on Evangelion. I don't know if he had mental problems while working on EVA or if he got through them before doing it, but EVA's theme is based off of the positive conclusion of Anno's depression, as far as I know atleast.
Giver-of-Will wrote:
Those are all good points, but. . .theres the power issue. Its not like evas have enough battery power to take over the world. As for the beserk thing, yah that could happen, but everyone in NERV was totally shocked when it went beserk, which means they obviously didn't expect something like that to happen. I imagine it has something to do with the fact they were all born after 2nd impact. Also, its not hard to find 3 people to brainwash.
It could easily have something to do with being born after 2nd Impact, but as far as just this theory goes, I don't think it has anything to do with souled adults vs soulless children. Nerv might be able to find adults to brainwash, but having adults makes everything way more complicated even if you can brainwash them. It's just much simpler and easier to use children because it's easier to manipulate them and it takes less to keep them... well, alive, since adults would probably be more likely to demand things like money and TV and such. Not all adults are like that, but the more efficient choice would be children. (Note that they potentailly needed more than 3 children, they just ended up with 3 stable pilots, but if things had lasted longer or happened differently more would have been needed - like Touji and Kaworu.
As for the Berserk thing, while people like Misato and such didn't know the EVA's true self, Gendou and the guys in charge did. That time when EVA 01 breaks out of its restraints and eats the Angel Gendou remarks something about it being going according to plan, or that it has begun, so it wasn't a new development, it was planned. The people who where in charge of the final plans definetly understood EVA's berserk-ness. [/i]
