FGC:Episode 08 Cut 088

Screenshots	Cut #	Description/Dialogue	Commentary
	088	Unit-02, submerged in a pool inside the cabin. Shinji stands on its head. Asuka stands on its back. She speaks triumphantly. ASUKA (OFF~ON):“After all, Units 00 and 01 were the prototype and test type of the development process. The fact that it synchronized with you, who had no training, is good evidence of that.”	UrsusArctos: The position Eva-02 is lying in reminds me of the image of Adam being excavated from Antarctica [1]. The script says that Shinji stands on Eva-02's head, but he's obviously on the pontoon beside it, while Asuka demonstrates, yet again, that kids in this universe can hop up to impossible-to-reach parts of mecha. Kendrix: I think that’s a rationalization that she came up with on the spot. To make his pesky achievement a fluke that didn’t count, since he’s only got a “test model”. Unbeknownst to her, Eva-01 is actually the most powerful Eva, since it is no mere copy, but a full-fledged “offspring” of Lillith. UrsusArctos: While Eva-01 uses Lilith's biomass, it's hard to call it a "full-fledged offspring" of Lilith since its morphology is the same as what we've seen from Adam and the other Adam-biomass derived Evas. Whether that or the soul inside being in one piece is responsible for Eva-01's superior performance in battle is a discussion that's been had many times before on EGF. It won't be until the end of Episode 19 that Eva-01 becomes unquestionably superior from a purely physical perspective.