FGC:Episode 12 Scene 07

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	190	SHINJI (OFF):“Say...” ASUKA (OFF):“What?”
	191	SHINJI:“Asuka, why do you pilot an Eva?” ASUKA:“To exhibit my talent to the world, of course.” SHINJI:“You mean to prove that you exist?”
	192	ASUKA:“Yeah, something like that. You're not going to ask her?”
	193	SHINJI (OFF):“I've asked Ayanami before.”
	194	ASUKA:“My, how intimate the two of you are.” SHINJI:“It's not like that.” ASUKA:“Then what about you, Shinji?” SHINJI:“I don't know.” ASUKA:“You don't know? What are you, stupid?” SHINJI:“Maybe I am.”
	195	ASUKA:“You really are stupid.” IBUKI (OFF):“One hundred twenty minutes to estimated time of impact.”
	196	MISATO:“You all evacuate too. I can take care of this myself.”
	197	AOBA:“No, this is our job as well.” HYUGA:“We can't let the kids risk their lives by themselves.”
	198	MISATO:“They'll be fine.”
	199	MISATO (OFF):“Even if the Evas are badly damaged,”
	200	MISATO (OFF):“their AT Fields”
	201	MISATO (OFF):“will protect”	UrsusArctos: Asuka has earphones and is listening to music? Looks like someone forgot that the interior of a plug is filled with LCL - unless Asuka's player is somehow waterproof! Dr. Nick: Well, if the supposed liquid is never normally depicted as such after the start-up sequence, what's the harm? But it bears repeating that the way LCL behaves as a plug-filler medium is one of the most nonsensical things in the whole show. It's Futurama-levels of whacked.
	202	MISATO (OFF):“the kids.”
	203	MISATO:“Inside an Eva is the safest place to be.”
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	205	MISATO (OFF):“Shinji,”
	206	MISATO (OFF):“yesterday you asked me why I joined Nerv.”
	207	MISATO (OFF):“My father was a man who lived for his research, for his dreams, to the exclusion of all else. I could never forgive him for that.”
	208	MISATO (OFF):“I even hated him.” SHINJI (MONO):“Just like my father.”
	209	MISATO (OFF):“He never took care of me, my mother or the family. His friends always said he was very sensitive and delicate. But the truth was that he was just a weak person running away from reality, the reality called his family. He was like a kid. I readily agreed with my mother when she decided to divorce him, because she was always crying. It seemed to have come as a shock to him, but at the time, I laughed at him because I felt he'd brought it on himself.”	UrsusArctos: Gendo and Dr. Katsuragi have a lot in common, and the "weak person running away from the reality called his family" description fits Gendo to a T. Of course, this is difficult to spot in Gendo because of his cold, harsh exterior shell, but it turns out to be evident by the end. Shinji and Misato, likewise, have more in common than is otherwise evident, and it's easy to see from this scene why Misato truly is Evangelion's deuteragonist.
	210	MISATO (OFF):“But he sacrificed himself to save my life”
	211	MISATO:“at the end.”
	212	MISATO:“Back during the Second Impact. Then, I didn't know whether I hated him or loved him. The only thing that was clear to me was I wanted to destroy the Angels who caused the Second Impact. So in order to do that, I joined Nerv. In the end, maybe I just want to”
	213	MISATO:“get revenge on my father,”
	214	MISATO (OFF):“so that I can free myself of him.”	UrsusArctos: The various shots of Shinji's past and facing Eva-01 actually hint at the opposite. Misato says she wants revenge for her father so she can be free of him. However, as much as Shinji hates his father (like Misato hated hers), he's seeking to connect to the father who abandoned him. The last shot of Gendo's back with the French and Russian Seele committee members is out-of-place and weird: Shinji never meets the committee, and what relevance would they have to him? Zusuchan: I feel like these various shots are a slight tease of the show getting darker and closer to the strange, dark weirdness usually associated with Eva.
	215	SHINJI (MONO):“I mustn't run away. I mustn't run away. I mustn't run away.”
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	217	SHINJI (MONO):“Right.”
	218	SHINJI (MONO):“I must not run away.”
	219	AOBA:“Target has been sighted at maximum magnification.” HYUGA:“Distance is approximately 25,000.”
	220	MISATO:“Here it comes. All Evas, start positions.”
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	224	MISATO (OFF):“All we have is a rough estimated trajectory from optical sightings.”
	225	MISATO (OFF):“So the Magi will guide you until the distance is 10,000 meters. After that, use your own judgment.”
	226	MISATO (OFF):“I'm leaving it all to you.”
	227	AOBA (OFF):“Angel approaching, approximate distance 20,000.” TEXT:“Maximum Magnification Relay: Optical Observation Post 3”
	228	MISATO:“Commence operation.”
	229	SHINJI:“Here we go.”
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	234	SHINJI:“Start!”

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