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Well my point is that E24 was never meant or intended to convey such themes, as confirmed by both Hideaki Anno and the episode director Masayuki Yamaguchi. Kaworu was just being a good friend to Shinji, and whether by unintentional/carelessly approved shots combined with cultural differences, or by other means, some people read into it as conveying themes or messages that it was not intended or supposed to convey. Like a person that barely knows a language saying the wrong words sometimes can lead to misunderstandings, E24 is kinda like that in some ways. There is nothing disingenuous about that, it is what the people that created the episode said about it.