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Lamebot posted:Oh hey, it's that poster again in the anime thread doing plot dumps under the guise of speculation. They openly stated that they wondered how Udo and Zofia will die next episode. That person is weird. Yeah it's pretty obvious too. They keep saying someone is on a plan with Zeke, even though the anime has cut scenes which would trigger those suspicions, plus no other anime viewer has even pointed it out and now they're calling deaths that haven't even happened or been hinted at yet. I think mods spoke with them last time they were doing it and were convinced they were genuinely anime only, but I think they've given themselves away after that comment.
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Asuron posted:Yeah it's pretty obvious too. They keep saying someone is on a plan with Zeke, even though the anime has cut scenes which would trigger those suspicions, plus no other anime viewer has even pointed it out and now they're calling deaths that haven't even happened or been hinted at yet. I think mods spoke with them last time they were doing it and were convinced they were genuinely anime only, but I think they've given themselves away after that comment. I mean, it's not an absurd guess, if I was playing devil-of-all-the-Earth's advocate. Attack on Titan has a reputation for killing characters, and if you watch for patterns, Udo and Zophia fall right into the Levi Squad and Mike space, where they get enough characterization that you care if they die, but no plot hooks that their deaths would lose. If you assume that Gabi as girl-Eren is going to lose someone in the Grim Reminder, then they're the obvious picks, since her family hasn't had the screentime to work for the audience as a motivator.
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Someone I know is anime only was speculating that those two would die next episode but also Falco's brother, Colt. This was all based off how much they've been characterized and such, plus his brother dying because of him would be a powerful beat which....yeah but not yet. So it's reasonable speculation I think, at least just that, but if they're nailing several things, perhaps things further out, then that's suspect.
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This person last season got accused of spoiling poo poo under the guise of speculation and i think got probe'd for it, and was pretty adamant that it was just speculation (which lol that's the biggest spoiler of all if you just tell someone speculating to shut the gently caress up). So like, I understand the skepticism but idk at this point I'm willing to concede this is probably sincere and just the result of this particular person really enjoying re-watching to pick apart details. Asuron posted:Yeah it's pretty obvious too. They keep saying someone is on a plan with Zeke, even though the anime has cut scenes which would trigger those suspicions, plus no other anime viewer has even pointed it out and now they're calling deaths that haven't even happened or been hinted at yet. I think mods spoke with them last time they were doing it and were convinced they were genuinely anime only, but I think they've given themselves away after that comment. I thought Zeke was in on some kind of plot when it became clear the Marleyan military didn't know he had royal blood. I think that's revealed in the 2nd episode this season? It's when he tells Colt he'll reveal his secret to wiping his rear end but it's clear that the military doesn't understand why his Beast titan has pseudo-founder powers. My thinking being that if he didn't reveal all of this to the military after turning his parents in, it meant that this was in service of some larger plan. I felt the existence of a plot was all but confirmed when Zeke let Falco take Reiner over to the building with Eren right before the big announcement. So again I get the skepticism, but I don't think any of the predictions are that crazy, and we've already been down this path with this exact poster.
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Gantolandon posted:Without this motivation, and necessity to treat their Eldian minority as constantly armed nuclear bombs, hostility towards them should gradually decline. Counterpoint: all of recorded human history
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JahRoo posted:I thought Zeke was in on some kind of plot when it became clear the Marleyan military didn't know he had royal blood. I think that's revealed in the 2nd episode this season? It's when he tells Colt he'll reveal his secret to wiping his rear end but it's clear that the military doesn't understand why his Beast titan has pseudo-founder powers. My thinking being that if he didn't reveal all of this to the military after turning his parents in, it meant that this was in service of some larger plan. I felt the existence of a plot was all but confirmed when Zeke let Falco take Reiner over to the building with Eren right before the big announcement. Eren also got a baseball glove from someone when in the hospital, and Zeke's the big baseball fan in the cast. It's pretty suspicious on its own, especially since there's not much other reason in the narrative to give him a ball and glove.
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chiasaur11 posted:Eren also got a baseball glove from someone when in the hospital, and Zeke's the big baseball fan in the cast. It's pretty suspicious on its own, especially since there's not much other reason in the narrative to give him a ball and glove. There are nine titan shifters and nine people on the field per team in baseball. He’s obviously making plans for the greatest all-star team to ever exist. Zeke’s already a pitcher and imagine the colossal Titan playing center field. Ethiser fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Jan 12, 2021 |
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Ethiser posted:There are nine titan shifters and nine people on the field per team in baseball. He’s obviously making plans for the greatest all-star team to ever exist. And by eating the Founder, Grisha doomed that dream. No wonder Zeke is so vengeful.
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Eej posted:Counterpoint: all of recorded human history No Wave fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Jan 12, 2021 |
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Reading the manga properly for the first time thanks to the humble bundle, before this I'd only read past season 3's ending. Honestly I think the anime has done a great job adapting everything, though I've noticed there are interesting character moments missed and important conversations sometimes cut short. e.g. Eren and Historia's relationship seems to be developing more in print.No Wave posted:I'm not sure what you're referring to.
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Professor Wayne posted:Looking at AoT and Sekiro, are immortal, anti-decapitation centipedes a thing in Japan? It's a product of Japan's fusion of Shintoism and Buddhism. Centipedes are a symbol of kegare (spiritual and physical uncleanliness/corruption) in Shinto. Meanwhile, Buddhism has the concept of duḥkha, the fundamental suffering of earthly existence caused by unfulfilled and unfulfillable material desire, with the quest for immortality being a particularly dangerous temptation because it permanently anchors you to the imperfect, painful material world. This causes your soul to stagnate and corrupt like water in a puddle, without the chance to evolve towards enlightenment and the true freedom of nonexistence by cleansing away your material self in the life/death flow of samsara. Combine Shinto impurity imagery with the Buddhist revulsion for fleshly immortality, and you get creepy, evil immortal centipedes.
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No Wave posted:I'm not sure what you're referring to. The Azumabitos' reaction is much more realistic - they see an opportunity to make money off of Eldia's natural resources and want to exploit them. It would make a lot more sense for industrialized nations to jockey over who gets to exploit the emerging economy and natural resources of Paradis for gain, not cheer an outright massacre to the last man. There have been people thinking like that throughout human history. That everyone is basically rational, that things can be mapped out rationally, that everything will make sense. Things don't tend to go well for them. People aren't rational. You can't get someone to die for a cause just by showing a balance sheet where someone else profits. You need something as simple as death to accept death. Love and hate tend to go beyond what makes any pragmatic sense. The world can change. Maybe the hatred for Eldians can be removed in time. (Having a military strong enough to crush the world and then not being a dick with it would probably help, as would the image of Paradis's soldiers stopping the rumbling) but expecting the hatred to go away just because there's money in it? That's a much less realistic view of people's interactions than this manga tends to go in for.
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You're calling me unrealistic because I don't believe the entire industrialized world would mobilize and kill every person in a country, at great risk, for no gain. That's fine, we can agree to see the world differently. EDIT: It all makes less sense the more I think about it... Willy Tybur was willing to die to make sure every nation in the world got locked into an unwinnable war vs Eldia, because of things that happened a century ago? And Eren, who has the power to see every possible future, chooses the course of action that makes Paradis look as scary as possible? Who knows, we have three more chapters I guess. No Wave fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Jan 12, 2021 |
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After the stunt Willy Tybur pulled, the world was sure as hell poised & able to go genocide Paradis - who perhaps I need remind you is a small island nation with no strategic allies that lags a century behind in military technology and infrastructure.
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No Wave posted:You're calling me unrealistic because I don't believe the entire industrialized world would mobilize and kill every person in a country, at great risk, for no gain. That's fine, we can agree to see the world differently. At least a portion of those countries, like turkey, are under either direct economic rule or outright occupation.
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There are many examples of racial animus driving irrational prejudices over centuries that affect us to this very day. African slaves were brought over to the Americas at the beginning of the 17th century and the fallout from that decision still affects us in 2021 through the American Civil War and the failure of Reconstruction. If you want a post industrial example of what people can do for resources look at the Scramble for Africa or even just the Belgian Congo. The people of the African continent weren't seen as the racial enemy of the world either. The Armenians were seen as the enemy of the state and were genocided out of Turkey as an excuse for racial unification. Also, of course, the persistence of antisemitism over thousands of years. Expecting racial tension to simmer down because the Titans are gone or whatever is the least realistic thing you can pull off in this manga of evil centipede spawned flesh mechs
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No Wave posted:You're calling me unrealistic because I don't believe the entire industrialized world would mobilize and kill every person in a country, at great risk, for no gain. That's fine, we can agree to see the world differently. I'm not sure where the 'no gain' part comes from - they were all at risk for a rumbling. Eldia is comparable to a country with WMDS that has a volatile leader that might actually use them. Surely no international coalitions would band together to invade a country like that, right?
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No Wave posted:You're calling me unrealistic because I don't believe the entire industrialized world would mobilize and kill every person in a country, at great risk, for no gain. When an oppressed minority gains the ability to strike back at their oppressors, or hold them at risk in any way, those oppressors freak the gently caress out. They despise the people on Paradis and have for generations now, they view holding the Eldians in internment zones as a perfectly acceptable and rational practice. That they could be easily spurred to genocide seems perfectly plausible.
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It might be difficult for some people to grok, but not all societal and geopolitical decisions are spurred on by "rational" capitalistic self-interest.
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Remember that Willy Tybur was Eldian and was well loved, and viewed as a savior. It's likely that the ones who beat Eren will be viewed similarly. As Heroes from Paradis who despite having nothing to lose from this saved the rest of the world anyway. While not everyone would accept this, if the Titan powers are destroyed at the same time by them, they may be content to live with it. Paradis is fairly powerful now and it's not like Marely can send the army they don't have at it.
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mightygerm posted:Eldia is comparable to a country with WMDS that has a volatile leader that might actually use them. Surely no international coalitions would band together to invade a country like that, right? I don't know, has the entire world invaded the US? :V
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No Wave posted:EDIT: It all makes less sense the more I think about it... Willy Tybur was willing to die to make sure every nation in the world got locked into an unwinnable war vs Eldia, because of things that happened a century ago? And Eren, who has the power to see every possible future, chooses the course of action that makes Paradis look as scary as possible? Who knows, we have three more chapters I guess. Willy saw a way to, in one stroke: 1) Purge Marley's corrupt military government and install a competent and (relatively) moral veteran as chief of state. 2) Reduce international enmity toward Eldians outside of Paradis 3) Neutralize a possible apocalyptic threat and 4) Die in a way that assuages his endless self loathing. He just didn't count on Eren and the Paradisian forces having that well developed a plan, or on wonderboy Zeke being a traitor. Thus, things going wrong, and people dying he didn't plan to get killed. As for Eren, he doesn't see every possible future. He sees bits and pieces of one future. And apparently, he sees something at the end of this hell that justifies all this, at least from his point of view. chiasaur11 fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Jan 12, 2021 |
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chiasaur11 posted:And apparently, he sees something at the end of this hell that justifies all this, at least from his point of view. From the Season 3 season end credits: 
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MonsterEnvy posted:Remember that Willy Tybur was Eldian and was well loved, and viewed as a savior. Would a story like this be believed, after Tybur admitted the last one was a sham?
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Viridiant posted:Would a story like this be believed, after Tybur admitted the last one was a sham? Tons of people are witnessing it, several even commented about it and started cheering them.
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Can't wait to crack open a cold one with the boys next week.
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DaveKap posted:Can't wait to crack open a cold one with the boys next week. The Nutcracker Suite will probably be the week after this one unfortunately. I'm looking forward to it though.
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yeah this battle’s going to be 2 episodes at least
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I was looking up how tall Yelena was after seeing people online speculate that the soldier in disguise is Armin and yo I had no idea yelena was this freaking massive
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Eustace posted:I was looking up how tall Yelena was after seeing people online speculate that the soldier in disguise is Armin and yo I had no idea yelena was this freaking massive That's a fan calculation, and Attack on Titan has a bit of inconsistency from panel to panel making guesses unreliable without an official fanbook for reference, but yeah. The only character who might be taller than Yelena is Shadis, and if that calculation is right, he's about 4cm shorter. Yelena's taller than some titans.
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the bigger Yelena theory
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Why is an aerial shot of wartime Falco part of Eren's memories? Is he seeing through Ymir who sees through the birds? He 'remembers' the pigs, too
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I assume he can remember the pigs because Ymir previously held the combination of all the titans, so an especially advanced or awakened or whatever shifter would be able to reach all the way back to her memories. Not sure about falco though maybe it's a sign that Eren eats him?
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He also seeks Zeke on the ground reaching out to catch his head. And Grandpa Jaeger.
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JahRoo posted:I assume he can remember the pigs because Ymir previously held the combination of all the titans, so an especially advanced or awakened or whatever shifter would be able to reach all the way back to her memories. Or Falco eats Eren.
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if Falco was the next Attack Titan, Eren would see things from his POVGaj posted:He also seeks Zeke on the ground reaching out to catch his head. And Grandpa Jaeger. But those are things Eren is actually present for. bees x1000 fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Jan 14, 2021 |
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Note also in that image that Eren sees Bertolt from the perspective of the Smiling Titan/Dina the day of Wall Maria was destroyed, which shouldn't be possible based on the information we have currently. Could be that there's an incoming twist that the Founder's connection with the "Source of All Living Matter" means Eren is functionally omniscient and can see the memories of all Eldians, and possibly all living creatures (such as the birds in Chapter 130/131)
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bees x1000 posted:if Falco was the next Attack Titan, Eren would see things from his POV Does that mean the bird is the next Attack Titan.
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titans are birds. thats why they're so light.
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Hell I’m all for eren becoming Leto II
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