ASUKA:“What are you blubbering about?!
Worrying about them right now
won't get us anywhere!”
SHINJI:“But how can we fight the Angel by ourselves?”
Mr. Tines: The operational unit cohesion demonstrated against Matarael has been squandered.
Dr. Nick: It doesn't help that Gendo, besides being a terrible field commander as we see in a bit, exacerbates Misato's bad decision by not telling Shinji about Unit-03's pilot either. Then again, perhaps he just really wants to test out the dummy plug system.