thewayneiac: At about this point, most audience members change their opinion from “Tell Gendo where to go” to “Pilot the thing already!”
Reichu: They certainly doemphasize Rei's physical pain here, don't they? For some reason, though, it never made me feel particularlysorry for her. Probably a combination of the melodramatically melancholy piano music and the fact that, well, Rei and I never really got along.