Ooh, both of those epic nominations are, well, epic. It's a pity that for every time I've rewatched the beginning of Escaflowne (I most often watch it when trying to get someone else hooked on it, which means I've seen the first two or three episodes at least ten times), I rarely get as far as that scene with Van's wings, and that is SO good. I think I've only seen the series all the way through once or twice; I'm bad about rewatching long series, it takes so much time.