UrsusArctos: Of all the continuity errors and bloopers in Evangelion, this is probably the worst of them all. One cut ago they were fighting Armisael at Owakudani some distance outside of the built-up Tokyo-3 area, which is at the north end of Ashinoko. Now the explosion takes place at the dead center of the city, and gets rid of everything when nothing but trees and hillocks were visible a moment ago.
Dr. Nick: Even if the location made sense, it's not much of a city destruction sequence. The explosion doesn't really look appreciably different from all the other Angel death explosions, and you're just supposed to infer its gigantic scale during the one second the buildings are visible. But I also understand why the DC version doesn't add any gratuitous nuke porn here (even though that is definitely Anno's jam): the focus is kept on Rei freaking dying.
