Quote:Perhaps... but they method I've described works. However the Eva could clearly move as early as episode 1 without a pilot. This makes me wonder if the soul thing was techno babble. The Reiquarium was fulll of clones that move somewhat and could react to simulus.... which means they can operate contiously at some level without a 'soul'. As Gendo describes it.
One soul between them is the explanation I remember.
So I guess it is a matter of what Gendo calls a soul, for me it looked like memory and functionality, rather than say the life force inhabiting the body. This means the Reis used in the dummy plugs are loaded with enough mental ability to function as pilots. The specifics are not really clarified in the series. For example, we never see what a Rei does inside the plug. Perhaps it is constantly controling ulta-violent video games within the plug. They just get a new scenario once they are in use.
Quote:That is a bit more open to interpretation... depends on your definition of 'need' in this case. There is a lot of predisposition towards killing... a voice telling you to and giving positive reenforcement when you do so, past presidence, constant attacks at an earily age that make you lose attachment to people. If you don't there will be a ranting psychopath in your head, combined with the endlessness of the droning.
I was referring to the parts about the host needing to kill.
After Gaara got smacked around and passed out here... he was much better. Perhaps the badger was moping and he had time to get himself together. Perhaps it was too drained to be as much of an influence. Perhaps he just got to sleep a few months of fatigue off for a bit. Probabely a combination, of the above. A direct compulsion... not so much. The effect can be the same though... momentum builds up in actions. Depessed people tend towards staying depressed. Once your in a war the not sleeping and the jumpiness and the like stay with you unless something major happens to break the cycle... Naruto provided an intervention.
The chemical will only stone Gaara... unless its Chakra reactive drugs. In which case Gaara will be mellow and after munchies as much if not more than the badger. However, if he gets cut off from the chemical the low of the withdrawl may make him and the badger go on a homicidal rampage. The chemical is as good or better than killing... it'll need a fix.
A lot of this is grey area and wiggle room for the source works. As long as your not directly contradicting the source material and can back up your findings, most people won't care too much and will except it well enough.