You have made some very keen observations and insightful points here and in the past. However there are times your answers seem to lead to more questions.
Which jargons did Anno switch between? With examples please.
In brief, what typifies the Clark/Asimov type of SF?
What was said in some of the radio broadcasts?
I like to have a good deep discussion about a complex topic, you make statements without fleshing out any of the obviously considerable thought and analysis that went into forming them.
In brief a Clarke/Asimov type of SF is one where Humanity has reached its evolutionary dead end and must use technology to become a higher form of consciousness or suffer a societal collapse. Also this higher form of consciousness is a benevolent being/s that will be more in harmony with the Universe and a kind of SF god/s. I can point to the ways both Clarke and Asimov typified this form of SF, but you did ask me to keep it brief.
Now which jargons does Anno use and switch between? His own science fiction jargon and regular talk. Anno used an interesting jargon for Eva: It deconstructs Clarke/Asimov type of SF by taking terms from various authors that were contemporaries of Asimov and Clarke and wrote stories within the genre and then choosing a term that either was a common shared term between a lot of stories from different authors or sounded the most appropriate to pair with christian/kabbalah symbolism to highlight the fact that the genre had always been about a type religion shared between many of its authors. While Asimov wasn't a believer that a higher form of consciousness is even a proper term to use (let alone has to be benevolent) he was never able to deconstruct the idea after he introduced it into his main body of work (like he had with a lot of other SF ideas) because of a writer's block and so his main work still counts as part of the genre even if the author himself didn't want to leave it there. Clarke on the other hand was a fervent believer in the benevolence of a higher form of consciousness even if he did write them as far more alien to human minds than a lot of his contemporaries. Anno said what he thought this SF religion's beliefs were as he saw it in a conversation between Misato and Gendo/Ritsuko in the old episode 25:
Card 1: THE BEGINNING OF THE PROJECT
Card 2: WHAT HUMANITY LOST:
Card 3: THEIR SOULS
Card 4: THE VOID IN THEIR SOULS
Card 5: OPTIMIZATION OF THE SOULS BEGINS
Card 6: A RETURN TO NOTHINGNESS
Card 7: THE HUMAN INSTRUMENTALITY PROJECT HAS COMMENCED
"Image of Gendo adjusting his glasses"
Gendo: Incorrect. It is not a return to nothingness. It is merely a return to the state of beginning.
"Image of Ritsuko's corpse floating in LCL"
Gendo: It is no less than a return to the primal womb we lost long ago.
"Image of Misato's corpse lying next to a blood covered wall"
Gendo: All individual souls and minds will become one, thereby attaining a state of eternal peace.
"Image of Gendo talking"
Gendo: The final goal is nothing more that that.
Misato in a black void: And that's Instrumentality?
Ritsuko sharing the same void: There's an emptiness in our souls, a fundamental incompleteness that has haunted all beings since the very first thought.
Card 8: THIS IS STARVING SOULS AND INSTILLING FEAR IN THEM
Ritsuko continuing: On a primal level, Man knows of the darkness at the core of his mind. We have sought to escape this void and the fear it causes. All Man's accomplishments stem from the hope of filling it. The darkness will never vanish as long as Mankind is merely human.
Misato responding: And so you'll crush everyone's minds together to fill the gaps?! How dare you presume to make the entirety of human existence into an experiment to prove your theory?! And to use deception in order to accomplish it?!
Ritsuko frowning: And yet, that is exactly as you wished it to be!
"Misato is confused by this statement and her Ego barrier starts to erode"
This is also a good example of Anno switching between his Eva jargon for Gendo/Ritsuko/the Cards and regular words that Misato uses in a single communication. Do you need me to translate the jargon?
One of the radio broadcasts is of an older woman talking about how the younger generation is soft and pampered because they find dating a difficult emotional problem when her generation had to deal with starvation as an ever looming problem. Also Misato at one point tries to bribe Asuka and Shinji with a steak dinner and they are confused as to why would Misato try to give them a
Comically Small Bribe when to Misato that was a great treat she was offering them.
