"distant, awkward communication" between Shinji and Rei on one hand, and Shinji and his father on the other in the first episodes, describing Neon Genesis Evangelion as a story about communication. In "Rei I", Shinji tries to communicate and establish a relationship with Rei, who is more emotionally attached to his father Gendo, but Rei refuses to open up to him and does not understand the meaning of his actions. In one scene Shinji sees Rei conversing with his father, smiling and jumping like a girl in love; according to Junichi Sato and Yūichirō Oguro, editor of some of the content of the Japanese home video editions of Evangelion, this could be an excess of the animators and a misunderstanding on the part of Shinji. In another scene, Shinji tries to strike up a conversation on an escalator and in the process criticizes Gendo, for which Rei slaps him. Kazuhisa Fujie and Martin Foster noticed that Rei slapped him "in very much the same way a mother would react to a selfish child". Critics Brian Camp and Julie Davis described the escalators as a characteristic element of the series and of Anno's directional style. Writer Susan J. Napier, following critic Toru Endo, interpreted the descent into the base of Nerv and the images of escalators and elevators as a "descent into the subconscious". For movie critic Krystian Woznicki, the static mechanicalness of escalators is also reminiscent of the beginnings of the anime medium, when stories were to a large extent verbal narrations. When Shinji enters Rei's room and he accidentally falls on her whilst she was naked, and in the process touches her breasts; the scene has been described as a criticism or parody of typical anime fan service. According to Christopher Kay from The Artifice, Anno uses such scenes to criticize the escapism of anime fans, who take refuge in a fictional and accommodating world. Carl Gustav Horn noted that the scene is "reminiscent of the most controversial one in Gainax's Honneamise", but "it's a eerie, mysterious scene, and erotic in a dark way rather than that of the 'cute' service shots". Mcccagora's Noah Black also compared Rei's behavior in the episode to the "psychological isolationist theory", where a person's emotions can be shown in extreme circumstances, but they otherwise present themselves as emotionless beings in groups of people so as not to stand out and draw unwanted attention