Saw it tonight. So everyone got the sub version? And were the sides cropped on theirs too? It was almost a fullscreen, certainly not the complete widescreen.
SPOILERS
Asuka, still awesome, but definite lack o'screentime. Mari, not as annoying as feared, but not really necessary. Assuming some future relevance. Shinji Mark II just gets better. Rei is certainly more human this time.
Misato starts to doubt and compares notes with Kaji much earlier. The latter not only is still among the living but with a screentime and character upgrade. Ritsuko apparently more stable (and less sleeping with the enemy?). In general more bridge bunnies, less stooges. And Hikari reduced to a cameo.
Gendo and Fuyutsuki not only shipping S/R, but made it a necessary part of the Scenario. They still intend to f@$% over SEELE, who are still completely monolith, just for the extra creepy.
And extra creepy brings us to Kaworu. :blink: The blithely ignorant, relative innocent Kaworu is gone. His last line...That it all but confirms what had been hinted at up to then is completely overshadowed by the rest. Which is neither blithe nor innocent. :sweat2: