lol, maybe you didn't understand it, but that's your fault, not Anno's. How did this episode "hint" anything? It "hinted" that Asuka and Shinji would be a great, in sync couple, which its hard to imagine how that could possibly be more false since they have one of anime's most screwed up relationships. Evangelion only really started to get good after episode 15, though this was done on purpose; Anno tried to make the first bit very stereotypical, so that it would be more shocking when he subverted it later.