UrsusArctos: Although the position doesn't seem very sensible from a real-world point of view, it symbolically sells the fact that the fate of Nerv HQ is in the balance as Eva-02 and Zeruel fight. Also note the warship in the foreground, that's a Russian Udaloy-1 class destroyer (7000 tons displacement), and it makes one wonder what a Russian ship that size is doing so deep underground. (Asuka throws an Udaloy in EoE, so deducibly that's her future victim in this scene)
