FGC:Episode 19 Scene 01

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Screenshots	Cut #	Description/Dialogue	Commentary
	001	Inside Nerv Headquarters. Unit One is still in the cage gantry scaffold lock. There is an ominous silence in the air.
	002	Shinji closeup. Shinji’s face is sinked in anger.
	003	Inside the bridge. The Eva in the cage is being projected. IBUKI (behind):“Unit One’s interlocking circuits have been cut!”
	004	Bridge, Ibuki in front of Fuyutsuki. FUYUTSUKI:“What about the ejection signal?” IBUKI:“It’s being locked from the plug’s side.”	SEELE-01: It always baffled me how the pilot could lock himself up, block the ejection of the Entry Plug and as seen later on, launch their own Eva. There were some serious authority loopholes in Nerv.
	005	Hyuga turns, looking toward’s the camera’s view (at Shinji) and speaks. IBUKI (OFF LEFT):“There’s no reception.” HYUGA:“But, Shinji, had we not done that you’d have died.”
	006	Inside the headquarters. The Eva is being projected. SHINJI (OFF SPEAKER):“That is not my concern!”
	007	Front of Hyuga closeup. HYUGA:“That’s the truth, though!”
	008	View of the entire bridge. SHINJI (OFF):“Don’t try to make me angrier by saying that. Unit One has”
	009	Time counter closeup. SHINJI (OFF):“185 seconds remaining.”
	010	An exterior view of Nerv Headquarters. SHINJI (OFF):“There’s enough here to destroy at least half of headquarters.”	Dr. Nick: This is such a big threat coming from Shinji that it feels like it's from a script draft wherein Toji died. And how long was Shinji stewing in the cockpit and planning this little stunt, all the while Unit-01 was arduously being transported back from Matsushiro?
	011	The bridge. Aoba is sitting in a chair in front of a bitter faced Fuyutsuki, and Ibuki on the other side gets up. AOBA:“The way he is now, he’ll do it.” IBUKI:“Shinji, listen to our words!”
	012	Ikari doesn’t move even slightly. (He has the same expression and pose as always) IBUKI (OFF):“If Commander Ikari hadn’t made that decision,”
	013	A closeup of the side of Ibuki, whose stood up and is appealing to Shinji. IBUKI (ON):“everyone could have died!”
	014	A closeup of an angry Shinji, he raises his head, it goes from his bangs to his mouth. SHINJI:“I said that’s not my concern!”
	015	Induction lever closeup. Shinji angrily slams down his right hand. SHINJI (OFF):“My father, he tried to kill Touji! (shouting)” There is a thud on the lever as Shinji’s right hand slams into it. SE <<Thud>>
	016	A closeup of the side of Shinji, scowling. He squints his (partially closed) eye and speaks. SHINJI:“With my hands!”	SEELE-01: I think the manga gets an important point across: Shinji is partially to blame for what happened. He knew the pilot was in and didn't want to hurt him, but he also knows how to extract an Eva's Entry Plug (as seen in chapter 6). He once again let his emotions run wild at a critical moment and now he's running away from the consequences. UrsusArctos: To me, the manga pushes things too far in driving home that point by killing Toji, which is the something that Shinji shouldn't be able to recover from. Evangelion 2.0's take on it seems to hit the right balance, making the same point explicit by removing the "who's the pilot?" dilemma from the equation. Shinji knows perfectly well that Asuka (Shikinami) is in the entry plug but refuses to take a more aggressive role in rescuing her because of his emotions getting in the way, thus dooming her to the Dummy System's savagery. Zusuchan: Well, Shinji wasn't really offered a chance to "rescue" either Shikinami or Toji, only to kill them-and he considered that or "do nothing" as the only choices in both instances, it seems. He's always had a problem with thinking of possibilities beyond those he's presented. That said, I think Toji's death was one of the few improvements over the series that Sadamoto's manga managed to introduce-it's suitably tragic and honestly makes a bit more sense too. His survival isn't a flaw as such, but it does come off a bit too much like something that probably wouldn't have been done had there been more creative control for Anno and considering he drops off the map soon after, killing him now honestly wouldn't change much-even if I do appreciate the little moment between him and Hikari afterwards.
	Title1	SUBTITLE:“Episode #19 A Man’s Fight”	UrsusArctos: "Man" is used here in the explicit sense of "a male human being" rather than as the old-fashioned generic term for a human being. For a series that doesn't usually resort to regular shonen tropes, this title pops out in its explicit machismo.
	017	View of the entire bridge. SHINJI (RADIO - OFF):“Father, you’re there, aren’t you!? What are you gonna say, answer me!”
	018	Ikari is inside the shot above Ibuki, who is in front of him. IKARI:“Raise the concentration of the LCL’s pressure to its limit.” Ibuki turns in reaction to Ikari’s words. IBUKI:“Eh?”	Mr. Tines: One of the very few (only?) times that the entry plug responds to a remote command.
	019	Ikari closeup. IKARI:“We don’t have the free to waste on an impossible child.”
	020	Inside the plug. The LCL changes color. SE <<ガシャン>>
	021	An angry Shinji inside the plug from below. It changes into a bizarre, rosy red color. This causes Shinji to tremble and gag, as the LCL returns to water. SHINJI:“I still have a direct connection with the circuit remaining -” SE <<ゴン (moving sound)>> SE <<ウッ>> SE <<ツハッ>>
	022	Shinji’s hands open. Shinji loses consciousness and it turns to black. SHINJI (RIGHT):“Damnit, damnit, damnit, damnit... (fade out)”
	023	There is destruction and bodily fluids scattered around the streets (traffic light, telephone poles) MALE ANNOUNCER A (RIGHT):“The dissolving process for the right breast has completed.” Background dialogue at the spot of the disaster (until cut 029)
	024	Fallen on the top of a private home is what is remaining of Unit Three’s right hand. SE <<ジャリ>> FEMALE ANNOUNCER (LEFT):“We’ll start the cleansinig of the bodily fluids from 03 as planned.”
	025	Ruins on a mountain road. Ritsuko is standing there with a bandage on her head. Misato comes in front of her, with her left arm in a cast. MALE ANNOUNCER B (RIGHT):“The number 6 parts are being heat treated. Laborers in the Eva, please evacuate.” RITSUKO:“Are you alright?”
	026	Looking up at Ritsuko’s breasts, which is front of Misato. Her left arm is in a cast. MISATO:“I’m able to work, it shouldn’t be a problem. I couldn’t rest”	Zusuchan: For some reason, I'd forgotten the usage of fanservice of this kind even this late in the game. Not that I necessarily mind, since the horny element is a pretty integral part of NGE, just that it's kind of surprising.
	027	Misato and Ritsuko stand at the intersection of the road. They face a fallen telephone and the neck of Unit 3. MISATO:“(behind) with this emergency. So what happened to Shinji?” MISATO:“(a slight pause) What about Shinji?” RITSUKO (behind):“They used the emergency laser cutter”
	028	Men wearing protection clothes take Shinji out of the cut open entry plug. RITSUKO (OFF):“to cut into the hatch”
	029	Two people stand in front of Unit 3’s neck. RITSUKO (behind):“and remove him.” MISATO:“This is bad. Now…” FEMALE ANNOUNCER:“Make your object the recovery of all large scale living parts. Are you working on the head. And the side? Make that your priority.” MALE ANNOUNCER:“Number 5, 6 converter ring refrigeration, roger.” FEMALE ANNOUNCER:“Disposing of the crushed vertebrae, roger. Please start working on neutralizing the LCL in the number 3 section at once.”	SEELE-01: All in all, the Eva's head looks better than last chapter suggested.
	030	Hospital greeting sign. ASUKA (OFF):“…it may be hopeless for him.”
	031	Hospital lobby. Asuka, resting against the wall (bandages are on various wounded parts of her) and Rei sitting in a chair (bandages on her left shoulder and hand). The two are in their plug suits. ASUKA:“That idiot surely won’t be able to recover from this.” REI:“How is Ikari?”
	032	Rei in front of Asuka, who is by the wall. ASUKA:“He wasn’t injured,”
	033	Hospital room. Closeup of the side of Shinji, sleeping. SE <<(Monitor sound) breathing>> ASUKA (OFF):“so he should come to.”
	034	Rei’s breasts in front of Asuka. ASUKA:“About now he should be dreaming.”
	035	Asuka’s breasts in front of Rei. REI:“Dream” ASUKA:“Yes. Don’t you dream? (bleeds into next cut)”	Mr. Tines: Not only fan-service, but some budget saving measures here in the framing to cut down on the lip-flap animation needed.
	036	Side of Rei. Her sideward glance returns to in front of her. REI:“...”	Translator’s note: There is an error in the storyboard here. It says Asuka in the storyboard, but it’s clearly Rei in this cut, which is what I have switched it to)

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