Comments:
019: If the beam is supposed to be normally invisible, they're not being consistent about it. I'd label this as a pretty straightforward blooper.
047: Now I'm imagining Misato quoting
Mad Bull: "They won't get away with cooking a pussy."
054, @ KnightmareX13: Balloon decoys are also a staple of Universal Century Gundam series.
065, @ Xard: The Yamato connection seems quite plausible. After all,
Anno is a huge Yamato fan.
066, @ Instrumentality: [Assuming Ornette is not going to pursue the blooper angle from cut 061] This field is also disregarding the laws of continuity. Now it's hexagonal, whereas it was octagonal just five cuts ago! Also, the angle of the deflected shot is somewhat off. It's not the biggest unambiguous blooper in the series, but it's among the top candidates.
086, @ Szmitten: If this is the worst off-model animation this supposedly notorious episode is going to throw at us, we're getting off relatively easy. Instead of 1990s version of Max & Milia's knife fight, we're just treated with copious amounts of still frames.
094: Various energy weapons do exist in the Eva universe, but they're all rather unwieldy and have slow rates of fire. As such, they're used throughout the show far less than more conventional weapons, like kinetic kill rifles and bazookas. In this respect the show reminds me of Metal Armor Dragonar.
100: They're setting up a Little Irony Bomb here. The positron gun reappears in Episode 22, with a Nerv-sticker slapped onto it.
168: They all suffered terrible tanlines due to this operation.
222: Don't tell this to that buttfrustrated autist EvaXephon, but this scene was memorably spoofed in Gear Fighter Dendoh's episode 14. However, because Dendoh's plucky kid heroes had no access to standard energy sources, their beam attack had to be charged up by people pedaling stationary bicycles.
255: I know it's a fantasy weapon, but what are those eight little converging beams?
261, @ Xard: It certainly
looks that way.
271, @ Twin Sigma: Almost there? Wouldn't there still be miles to go, considering how deep the central shaft appears to extend in episode 24?
305, @ Leighton: Why wouldn't it burn? It's just a big methane-filled balloon.
307: Oh, the confusingly defined humanity!
310: Did the drill break free and keep going for a while? Ramiel's main body was already falling to the side in cut 307.
316: Wait, in cut 314 the plug looks unharmed (probably recycled animation), but here its surface is all melted wrinkly. And why would it melt inside Zero's moist meat pouch? Was she that thoroughly cooked?
320: "Wow, she looks hot. Smoking, in fact."
30-Second (Video Release) Version, cut 02, @ after Kendrix:It's the closest thing to Boss Borot we're going to get in this angstfest of a show.
General editing:039: I'd appreaciate it if this cut also linked back to episode 5, cut 290, because that's where my disclaimer regarding that less-than-stellar thread is.
044: Just saying, I initially found this very brief snippet by wayne to be pretty baffling:
In Gurren Lagann, they seem to always say "drill" in English, so maybe there isn't an actual Japanese word. Does anyone here know for certain?
I think what you're intending to say is that maybe there isn't a non-loanword for it. Loanwords are still "actual Japanese", as long as they've been well-established and integrated into the language. Also, I think Tines' explanatory comment should come after Kendrix.
338: Regarding Kendrix's "see the Anno quote someone else posted earlier" - I guess this refers to Xard's comment in the END cut, which
follows this comment.
Typos:024: typo, nervuos
038, 083: ppl
054: typo, baloon
131: typo, wether
264: typo, comming
271: Missing comma? I'm almost there dude, just wait
302: typo, acute accent instead of apostrophe (Rei´s).
321: typo, point if view
325: typo, allright
338: typo, atraction, comming; missing space there(Then