I actually lawled at the thought of Saji basically being in the backseat of the 00 while Setsuna is doing his best kamikaze/stunt pilot impressions. Ditto on the Marina stuff; waste of animation, if you ask me. And I guess they're saving Marie for piloting the Arios's support craft, but I would have made a lot more sense if she told Saji to screw off and let the professionals handle the situation (I'm sure she still had all of her "Soma skills", as I would assume, its mostly muscle memory and such). And the ending...yea; that was retarded.