>>I'm even more in the dark on that score, never having seen more than
>>tiny fragments of the original. I mean, I'm not even clear on why
>>Gendō was put in command of NERV in the first place. I guess
>>he did design the EVAs, but shouldn't that just put him in the Dr.
>>Shen role?
>
>Dr. Shen called, he says he's hurt that you would equate his role to
>Gendō's when the obvious parallel with Ethical Vacuum Vahlen is
>there for the taking.

I admit to having only been thinking in terms of Shen being the weapons, robots, etc. designer.

(I wasn't super impressed with Shen in the expansion, though. Little too gung-ho about the full-cyborg conversions. Vahlen actually seemed to care more about the long-run welfare of her variety of super-soldiers.)