Booo. Berserker!Shinji was epic, I was hoping it would stay okay.
In other news, I have recently rediscovered the 08th MS Team, and am currently rather enjoying it. Liking the gritty 'everyman soldier' viewpoint, loving the realistic treatment of giant mechs - in a particular skirmish, one is taken out by a single guerrilla with an RPG attacking an open cockpit hatch; a second is destroyed by another mecha firing at a distance via forward observer, and a third is crippled through inventive use of cover and another RPG fired into thin underside armor. The guerrillas promptly get cocky and emerge into the open... at which point the mecha reasserts itself by firing several airburst fragmentation rounds and wiping them out.
Unfortunately, they couldn't avoid adding a few painful cliches (lovers across the battlefield, the uptight higher officer, etc).