Originally posted by: darkshadow
well im not sure if that explosion was the tannhauser, i mean if it was, AA should be scrapped, wouldnt that make athrun scream CAGALLI!! instead of KIRA??
The Archangel was already at least 90% underwater and the water protected them some.

I still contend that there was only one explosion, they just changed the point of view on it. Like someone pointed out you can clearly see the remenants of the Tannhauser shot in the first scene, and the explsion was clearly still growing. They just simply zoomed out the view after that. If you look at the explosion as it approches Minerva you can tell it is the same explosion as the one after it zooms out. I repeat Freedom NEVER exploded.



BTW: I don't think Neo was recovering any memories in that scene, it seemed to me that he saw something that maybe he could use to try and escape.