LAST CHANCE!  SPOILER SPACE!

muahaha...I have no fear of being spoiled...but maybe I should be
warning people of spoilers in my fic...

    But no ... Anno-sensei has given us a look into the dark corners
of
his mind, and as Fuyutsuki says about Gendou, "I will admit he is
interesting, but I doubt that I will ever like him," or agree with his

idea of paradise.

I'm one of those pro-Gendou people, I do disagree with his ideas, but
you have to give the man credit.  His idea of the world is more prettier

than SEELE's idea.  We'd see the Third Impact go unopposed if Gendou
wasn't there to secretly go against SEELE.

                                 EPILOGUE

    After it was over, I didn't cry for Gendou.  I want to make that
perfectly clear.

    "It is ... it must be ... a coincidence," he began without
preamble.
"Perhaps a cosmic joke of sorts.  Or even, as impossible as it seems,
one
of our own was somehow leaking information about our aims and agenda
to
Anno.  However, it changes nothing.  The Human Complimentation Program

is
the only way that we can achieve the next level."

I doubt he'd think it was a coincidence.  SEELE is there, he dosen't
like their scenario, and he goes through a great deal of trouble to hide

things from them.  But yes, Gendou would continue the project
nevertheless.

    "Yes, people will suffer.  Innocents will suffer.  But it is for
the
right reasons in the end, and their suffering will allow their kindred

to
become as gods.  And we will be suffering just as much as any of
them."

But there would be less suffering than that of SEELE's idea.

    "There has to be another way to provoke Second Impact," he said
angrily.  "They can't have just left something in the Antarctica,
there
*must* be traces elsewhere."

hrm...I believe that the Second Impact was an accident caused by
scientists who arrogantly proceeded in projects they didn't understand,
but an intentional Second Impact is very believable.

    The look on his face was so hurt that I almost felt sorry for him.

"It's over, Rokubungi," I said simply.  "We failed before we even got
started, and the otaku have done it to us.  There's no way in the
world
that we'd be able to get away with the sort of thing that we did in
the
show --"

that's why strings are pulled...

    "Then why the fuck do you look like you, and why the fuck do I
look
like me *and* Rei?" I snarled right back.  "They *know* what we're up
to,
somehow, and they have given us a crystal clear vision of what will
happen
if we go forward.

The hiding of Rei's clone status was one of the big secrets...secret
enough to be able to hide it from SEELE.  finding out now would have
blown things wide open.

    "Yes?" he asked, and I swear that heard real pain in his voice.
"Dammit, woman, doesn't that *mean* anything to you?"

remember that it wasn't until Yui's disappearance did Gendou turn
cold...

    Wonderful, I thought, an obsessed otaku discovers where Gendou
lives
and does him in.  I turned to flick on the lights, said, "No, Yui,"
and
felt reality turn fluid.

a dead guy's in the living room and someone with possibly a gun in the
bathroom and all she thinks is "wonderful"  it dosen't seem quite right.

    The man on the floor was Ikari Shinji.

wait...I thought it was Gendou on the floor...

    "Afterwards," he gasped, "afterwards, when I ... was alone, they
came.
People from other timelines.  They wanted to know how they could stop
it
from happening elsewhere."  He smiled, sweetly and sickly.  "I was
very,
very motivated to help them."

Shinji loved his father.  Although there was a distancing between the
two, hearing words of praise form his father is what kept him going as
an eva pilot.  Piloting the Eva was the only thing going for him at the
time, despite his suffering.  I doubt he'd ever help anyone to kill him.

    "Because it wasn't *certain* that it would never happen.  It could

only be certain if he died before I was concieved ... so --"

SEELE is supposed to be around long before the Second Impact.  They
would leave off where Gendou ended.  Perhaps now Misato's father would
be the one to take over the Gehrin.

    He looked at me and I met his gaze steadily.  "No," he whispered.
"I
chose to do this."  There was a silence.  "He left me once when I was
only
a few years old.  He left me again ... only this time it was on a
world
made up of a sea of spit and a woman I hated.  I wouldn't accept his
vision, and so was cast me out of it.  Can you blame me?"

Shinji was the one who ran away from home, not Gendou.  It wasn't until
the 3rd angel attacked that they met again 3 years later.  As for Asuka,

I think Shinji loved her.  She may be annoying, but there is a sense
that he likes her and vice-versa.  The strangling scene was kind of
strange and vague, but the way I saw it was Shinji didn't kill Asuka but

was symbolic of Shinji deciding not to go along with the HCP.  Although
he could choose any scenario as reality, but instead rejects this and
decides to remain human without the compliment.

    He smiled again, and I could see that his gums were bleeding.
"When
was reality ever that clean?  My punishment for patricide is a slow,
painful death."  He swallowed.  "At least I never did anything with
Rei.
Then it would be just too Oedipal ..."

Shinji turns bitter and cold, not to mention able to confront
others...hrm

The cause of death for the unidentified man was described as a mystery

--
according to the medical examiner in charge of the autopsy, the John
Doe
should have been dead several months earlier, judging from the growth
of
the various cancers on his internal organs.)

cancers or deterioration?

She returned to her studies of biophysics,
and if she maintained contact with her associates in the alleged
secret
society she describes, she did not record any details.

why would she describe the "secret society?" to regular police?

Overall Impression:

This is certainly a different twist to the series.  Although I don't
agree with some of your interpretations of the series, Evangelion is too

vague and intellectual to have merely one interpretation.  I'm also one
of those who stand to the fact that Anno ended the TV series as he had
intended to and it is the official word on the ending.  The movies were
simply a way to get more money.  I don't like the cold and bitter
Shinji, but I've always looked at keeping character personalities the
same in my fics.  I also think a scenario where Gendou is dead would
create an even grimmer future for mankind because of SEELE.

Captain Jack