FGC:Episode 16 Scene 03

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Screenshots	Cut #	Description/Dialogue	Commentary
	080	TEXT:“Power Source Ahead” TEXT:“State of Emergency Declared: Closed to General Traffic”
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	083	SHINJI:“Ayanami, Asuka, are you in position yet?”
	084	REI (OFF):“Not yet.”
	085	ASUKA:“You know there's no way we could move that fast!”
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	087		UrsusArctos: The umbilical cable-switching sequence that follows is interesting from both a tactical and a logistical standpoint, and treats the Evas much in the vein of "real robot" series where mecha are treated as machines with machine limitations rather than "super robot" series where the mecha are more like superheroes or gods. The Evas are, of course, biological mecha, and this is the very episode where the secret to their power is revealed. Dr. Nick: All mecha shows of course have some super robot DNA in them, but the term "hybrid robot" has been coined as the third subgenre to house all the weird in-between things. It contains a lot of the wild oddities that sprang from NGE's success, but one could also argue that Evangelion's daddy Ideon should belong there - the titular robot is powered by soul magic, sure, but the hostiles are all just Buff Clan military vehicles. Alternatively, one could also argue that both Ideon and Evangelion belong to a very minor sub-subgenre of horror mecha.
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	091	TEXT:“Power Source”	Mr. Tines: How to defeat range anxiety in your EV, sorry Evangelion UrsusArctos: They really should have stuck a few more of these down in the Geofront. She sorely needed one of these when she was fighting those damned harpies.
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	095	SHINJI:“Not there yet?”
	096		dzzthink: Just like how we practiced on the bus, remember Shinji? You can do this!
	097	SHINJI (MONO):“I'll go ahead and stop it on my own.”	UrsusArctos: Shinji has the expression of a classic, determined shonen hero in this shot to go with the equally shonen hero thinking. Of course it gets him in trouble.
	098		UrsusArctos: Eva-01's handgun looks like a Desert Eagle Mk XIX scaled up to Eva size.
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	100A	RITSUKO:“It disappeared!”
	100B		UrsusArctos: So much for the "pattern/blood type orange" seen previously. As if we needed further confirmation, this is all the evidence we need that we're dealing with a new Angel.
	101	MISATO:“What?!” HYUGA:“Pattern blue! Angel confirmed! Directly beneath Unit 01!”
	102		UrsusArctos: Since Leliel has demonstrated that it can appear anywhere it wants, why didn't it turn up at Lilith's chamber and put an end to the whole shebang? One explanation would be that Leliel wanted to make contact, and Eva-01, by shooting at the shadow first, initiated contact. Leliel simply followed through.
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	104	SHINJI (OFF):“A shadow?!”
	105		UrsusArctos: Leliel's shadow seems to bleed LCL or something visually identical to it when shot at.
	106	SHINJI:“What is this?! It's weird!”
	107		UrsusArctos: A supremely creepy shot, with Leliel's striped sphere hovering over Eva-01 like a true eldritch horror. I've heard that the shot of the witch Charlotte hovering over Mami before the infamous MOGU MOGU scene in Madoka Magica was modeled after this shot; I certainly see the resemblance.
	108	MISATO (OFF):“Shinji, get out of there! Shinji?!”	UrsusArctos: After a brief while looking and posing like a heroic mecha pilot, Shinji is back with an expression that suits him perfectly!

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