Necratoid Wrote:One of Rei's biggest issues is that she was socially stunted on purpose.... and speaking from personal experience, anyone trying to catch up runs into a 'burn the witch' mentality from the general public. Gendo tends to hire the social outcasts so he can manipulate them and its one of the qualities that fuels the scenario... like gasoline on a candle.This may not entirely be the situation. Shadowjack's review thread builds a reasonable case that, while Gendo is indeed doing his best to be a manipulative douchebag, a lot of what goes on in Tokyo-3 may just be the result of perfectly ordinary bureaucracy in action. Even Rei's mental state and housing.
--Sam
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