#attack on titan season 3 spoilers

[ly0nstea]

AOT Fans when Armin watched Eren get eaten alive: awh poor baby :( how could anyone cope with this situation

AOT Fans when Floch watches all of his superiors die, has a 20ft tall ape throwing metre wide shrapnel at him, and is ordered to die in kne of the most gruesome and meaningless ways imaginable: what a little bitch whyd he sign up for this if he couldn't cut it he's so annoying

[ackerteasstuff]

“ My heart calls your name. ”

[themastermarkus]

Why Erwin Smith in Season 3 and the Choice in Midnight Sun Doesn't Work.

In Season 3 (excuse me for using “seasons” to mark out the arcs, as I do mean the equivalent time in the manga, it’s just simpler since this problem is spread out between all the arcs in that season), Isayama sets up Erwin’s intense guilt over sending soldiers to their deaths for his goal of wanting to learn the truth of humanity and the titans—dspite it making no sense for him to feel like his goal is selfish, as finding out the origin of the titans is already established to be part of the goal of the Survey Corps. It’s fine for Erwin to feel guilty for making calls that lead to peoples’ deaths, but Isayama seems to write Erwin as though he is objectively in the moral wrong despite the fact that using people to fulfill his personal goal is indistinguishable from if he just took over the Survey Corps and kept doing what they already did. I suppose it might be implied that he encouraged more research about the titans which… is not a bad thing when they fight the titans. Otherwise in the rebellion arc he has Survey Corps soldiers dying for him in fights against the government, but I never got the impression that he was forcing anyone into it under orders.

It feels very out of character for Levi not to choose to save Erwin. Kenny’s line about “everyone being a slave to something” that’s referenced in the moment of that decision doesn’t work because Erwin has not been shown to have a harmful, slavish obsession, just a personal goal that he throws himself into more recently since the opportunity to achieve it has presented itself (Not to mention that Erwin is like… metres away from his goal when this choice is being made, after which point he would no longer “be a slave to it”). Not giving the serum to Erwin does not feel like a choice that Levi, the character, would make given how close he and Erwin are implied to be. Instead, it feels like Levi is making the choice as if he only knows as much about Erwin and Armin as the audience does and is making a choice that could reasonably go either way because WE know both characters roughly as much, or Armin even better than Erwin, really. The problem is that this doesn’t realistically consider Levi’s experiences with each character, which is the choice between a man he’s known for years who changed his life dramatically, who he follows loyally and holds a lot of respect and affection for, and a kid that he’s come to care for in the general way that Levi cares for all the cadets, but he’s only known for like… a year max. It feels like choosing to save Armin is forced upon Levi because Isayama wanted Erwin to die and Armin to live and get the Colossal Titan because he came up with those story beats and was going to shove his way into them somehow.

On that note: Armin is just… I would say objectively the wrong choice. Armin is a character who is shown to be clever and driven (and everyone talks about how smart he is), he’s good at deduction but he’s not a tactician or a leader. He is brought back because Isayama wanted to have him, Mikasa, and Eren once again be crucial to the story at the end of it, not because it makes sense for the Survey Corps to sacrifice their COMMANDER for a cadet who has shown to be worth something, but clearly isn’t a replacement for a man who seems to be the best leader they’ve ever had. I think the choice of Armin could be more valid if Erwin was mentoring him (though still a stretch considering there’s nothing wrong with Erwin [at least nothing worth the mercy killing that Isayama seems to be portraying not using the serum on him as] and he’s only like 35 or something), but he’s not. Armin is only really, functionally important to the Survey Corps because he is close to Eren. Also, while this is probably my least-strong argument against picking Armin, but I feel like if Isayama wanted him to be convincingly still alive at that point, he probably should’ve had Armin a bit further away from Bertholdt’s explosion. That boy isn’t just externally burnt, he should have died like… immediately.

And don’t get me wrong, I don’t even dislike Armin, nor do I think that Levi wouldn’t feel a bit of guilt for not saving him, I just hate bad writing that seems to rely so heavily on plot convenience, and I think that this point of the story is where it was really affirmed that things were going to go downhill pretty consistently (barring most of Reiner’s part at the beginning of the Marley arc, but that’s another subject).

P.S. I'm currently reading the manga for this part after having only watched the anime, so I might have more to say later, though I doubt that my opinions on these writing choices will change considering that I don't think the anime cut out SO MUCH that these choices will instead make sense.

[mindfulafflictions]

Shinzou wo sasageyo

[vainilla-milk]

Oh, Reiner... You stole my heart again (ಥ﹏ಥ)

[rivangel]

humanity’s strongest.

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[sakura-riri]

"give up on your dreams and die." - levi ackerman

(currently on season 3 man some are just heartbreaking but the hype still prevails in my heart for sure! 💔💞 will be changing my profile theme again haha)

[greasedglizzy]

Rewatching aot and dude

Just thinking about the potential of if Marco DID survive

He's genuinely smart as shit after what he figured out what Reiner and Bertholdt were talking about on the roof.

Imagine a team up of him, armin and erwin. THE POTENTIAL BRUH

[yuzukahachimir]

Help,guys that's it the end is near.

The images,the voice acting,all god.

Is a bittersweet feeling after all know that this amazing manga/anime is ending but now for real real.

I don't know what a rollercoaster of feelings.

[zaddyazula]

you’re taking the piss

[ly0nstea]

so you agree that the scouts who ran to zeke as a diversion in the return to shiganshina arc died meaningless deaths?

To them it was meaningless in that moment, from an outside view their deaths directly caused the Jaegarist movement to form (seen as if floch wasnt the sole survivor of the attack he never would have had the motivation to help eren start the jaegarists and we know that floch did most of the boots on the ground recruitment, and led them during day to day activities in missions. Without Floch the jaegarists would be nothing.)

Similarly, putting Zeke out of commission (which would have been impossible withoit the charge) was critical to the success of the scouts in Shiganshina, had Zeke still been in his full power he likely wouldve demolished Levi Squad that was inside the walls. At the very least he would have gotten some kills in on them before Mikasa, or Eren fought him off.

Then, attack on titan routinely demonstrates that the afterlife is a tangible thing, seen when Erwin and Hange have the scouts stamding behind them in shadows, this is furthered in the manga but thats major spoilers so I'll avoid it. Even if the afterlife is more symbolic and that isn't actually the souls of former scouts behind erwin and hange, they have a tangible impact on the world, erwin directly references seeimg them in Perfect Game. Ergo it stands that any and every scout death retains some modicum of meaning in the weight that it puts on the shoulders of the leaders of the survery corps.

And lastly the text agrees with me when Erwin (who was shown in his discussion with floch immediately before this to be brutally honest to a cruel degree in these scenes), "[our comrades] lives have meaning because we the living refuse to forget them." Which is shown through floch living on after the Return to Shiganshina arc

So yea, I believe theor deaths were meaningful, no matter how cruel and horrible the circumstances were.

[thena0315]

Attack on Titan - Season 4 Part 3 Part 1

Levi upon seeing the Beast Titan and is ready to kill with every last strength he has left

[happybird16]

New Attack on Titan The Final Season Part 3 frames advertised in Japan

[this-is-krikkit]

i don't mean to sound pathetic but if we get an additional anime levihan scene on the boat (or even just a hint that they're sharing a bed on the journey or anything like that) i might die

[weebookey]

Ackerman’s killing off someone they loved for the greater-good...

[mikatsuobushi]