Fifth meeting

Fifth Meeting

We had our 5th meeting on September 30th. At this meeting we more or less just talked a little and went straight to watching the show due to it being the week of Lakapalooza and not many showed up. At this meeting we got through five episodes, one of them being a recap of what had happened so far in the series.

all episode guides come from http://www.animeinfo.org/featured/eva/evaanime.html.

14 - Weaving a Story

NERV's supervising organization SEELE takes the time to review the actions since the appearance of the first Angel since the Second Impact. Observing logs, personal entires, and other accounts, they attempt to piece together the story as it has happened so far, and evaluate it. Gendo assures the council of mysterious men that they are well on their way to mankind's destiny. But SEELE will make their own judgement, and whether or not they come to the conclusion that Gendo has is another story entirely.

15 - Lie and Silence

Yet another wedding of an old college friend has Misato, Ritsuko, and Kaji thinking about their own futures and their lives, while Shinji and Gendo become strangely communicative with each other. A visit to Shinji's mother's grave serves to form an unusual bond between father and son. Meanwhile, Misato finally reveals her real reason for her attraction to Kaji, as the plot begins to thicken with part of NERV's secrets discovered underground.

16 - Sickness Unto Death, and.../Splitting of the Breast

Shinji is finally beginning to think he has the hang of piloting an Evangelion. His synchronization rating and self-esteem rises even higher with every compliment that he gets. However, all of that is erased in an instant as Shinji's new found confidence gets him entombed inside the latest Angel threat! Unable to escape and running only on internal life support, Shinji must now face his past and present pain, as well as his imminent death, while the rest of NERV scrambles to save him from the clutches of the most powerful Angel yet.

17 - The 4th Child/Fourth Children

NERV and the Marduk Report have finally found the Fourth Child and designated pilot for EVA Unit-03, and it is someone no one would have really expected. Shock and surprise ripple through just about everyone at NERV as news of the identity of the Fourth Child is spread. Shinji, seemingly the only one unaware of the true identity of the Fourth Child, continues as normal, finding out, among other things, that Kaji has a strange but relaxing pasttime. With the 2nd branch of NERV desotryed mysteriously, however, the relaxation won't last long.

18 - The Judgement of Life/Ambivalence

NERV is finally receiving EVA Unit-03, and eagerly places its new pilot inside for a seemingly routine sync test. But yet again, fate rears its ugly head as Unit-03 is taken over by an Angel, destroying the research facilities and wreaking havoc on Asuka and Rei as they try in vain to stop the rampaging EVA. Now it's up to Shinji to stop the Angel/EVA before it invades NERV HQ - but he'll have to make a decision to fight against someone he doesn't even know, but still feels a strang ebond with as a pilot. Gendo, however, doesn't feel the same, and he will do anything in order to protect the interests of NERV and of SEELE.

We only have 6 more major episodes left before we bring in the movie and show that instead of the last two episodes. The reason for this is because in the series the episodes are harder to understand and follow then the movie is. Plus the movie does a better job at ending the series then the series itself does. So at this meeting we will need to decide how many episodes to watch. We could do 3 and 3 at the next two meeting and watch the movie as is, or we can watch 4 or 5 this meeting and squeeze in the last episode or two with the movie at the next meeting. The other thing that will need to be talked about is wheter or not we want to have a meeting the Wenseday of Fall break or not. The final thing we need to discuss is what series we want to show during the second half of the semester. We can squuze in another 26 episode series or two 13 episode series, so I will bring in all my stuff again and you can bring in the series you have and would like to see and the group of us that shows up can vote on what we want to see. Most likely there will be only about nine of us there so we will think of a way to vote, I have one idea but well worry about that in two to three weeks. Well the next meeting will be tommorow October 7 at 5:20 in the Library room 102.

- Jamie