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Caros posted:
That one's Eren using PATHS to make a world for Mikasa where they ran away, so she gets a better goodbye than he gave her otherwise. Not a "real" alternate future. Just an elaborate fake.
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# ? Apr 14, 2021 03:42 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 03:13 |
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KazigluBey posted:If this is an intentional way to sneak a bleak as gently caress ending under editorial notice (which still feels a little like copium to me, but hey stranger things have happened) then you know what, it's still dumb but I can at least appreciate the attempt to salvage a different vision. I want to know what would have happened in the original Mist ending planned for AoT.
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# ? Apr 14, 2021 06:30 |
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chiasaur11 posted:That one's Eren using PATHS to make a world for Mikasa where they ran away, so she gets a better goodbye than he gave her otherwise. Not a "real" alternate future. Just an elaborate fake. This is why I've been somewhat forgiving of the main cast feeling all grateful to Eren at the end, because there's a good chance they've been mind melding with him which could feel like years passing in a moment. Who knows how much sentimental mindfucking happened.
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# ? Apr 14, 2021 13:46 |
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Dammit Japan don't enable him. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-04-13/attack-on-titan-finale-leads-to-magazine-issue-selling-out-and-getting-2nd-printing/.171689
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 08:48 |
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Tenkaris posted:Edit: thinking about the Apple girl. It makes sense that they mythologized it as a deal with the devil for power when marley is writing the narrative. Then you see that the girl was abused and was desperately fleeing her imminent death and didn’t exactly consent to becoming host to the hallucigenia. That's actually one of the few things in the ending that makes sense. Ymir's love for her abuser pretty much mirrors Reiner and Gabi's devotion to Marley. It's also a thing that frequently happens in real life.
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 08:54 |
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I quite enjoyed the final twist of Ymir not simply having internalized being a slave, but that for all his flaws and poo poo he did she'd become genuinely, twistedly enamored with Karl Fritz, and the Power of the Titans had been all along her way of honoring his final wishes. Wonder if this implies freeing the pigs was an attempt to get his attention.
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 09:07 |
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truly, the real villain was how much a beefcake king fritz was.
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 14:23 |
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The ending was not good, but the Ymir/Fritz thing didn’t bother me. Stockholm Syndrome is real and it’s believable that a make believe slave would be in love with her make believe master. But lol at Reiner saying, “drat, Eren, what a guy!”
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 16:51 |
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For me the issue with Ymir was less about the Fritz thing and more about how her entire purpose in the story seemed super underwhelming. Did she really orchestrate all of this just to see Mikasa kill Eren then vanish into thin air? What the hell was the point of 120-122? Why even introduce the worm thing when its just going to be a meaningless mcguffin? I was hoping for there to be some conflict between, or some implicit cooperation/plan with Ymir, Eren and the worm but all the buildup was basically for nothing, Eren more or less was a puppet all along, and there was no greater 'plan'.
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 16:59 |
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Squack McQuack posted:The ending was not good, but the Ymir/Fritz thing didn’t bother me. Stockholm Syndrome is real and it’s believable that a make believe slave would be in love with her make believe master. I have no problem with Ymir Stockholm Syndrome, but it was pretty dumb that she needed Mikasa to cut Eren's head off to finally be free of it
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 17:03 |
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Elias_Maluco posted:I have no problem with Ymir Stockholm Syndrome, but it was pretty dumb that she needed Mikasa to cut Eren's head off to finally be free of it It seems even more pointless because she had all the Titan powers at one point which meant she could possibly see the future when she was alive. She and Eren could have both had a story about breaking free from what they thought was a predetermined fate, but I guess that would have been too interesting. It also would have explained her devotion to the king way better.
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 19:55 |
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Elias_Maluco posted:
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 20:22 |
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Man, and I really hate the usage of stockholm syndrome in stories, especially when it's like an apparently supercharged version of stockholm syndrome in this case
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 20:24 |
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Squack McQuack posted:The ending was not good, but the Ymir/Fritz thing didn’t bother me. Stockholm Syndrome is real and it’s believable that a make believe slave would be in love with her make believe master. Stockholm Syndrome has some very questionable and misogynistic origins. Really not a fan of the Ymir/Fritz reveal for that and other reasons, it feels very unneeded. Ymir being so broken down by King Fritz she could not imagine a life outside of slavery was a good enough explanation for her actions imo.
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 20:29 |
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The Ymir/Fritz thing has lovely undertones but in isolation it's like whatever, Ymir could be a sicko who's all in on that. The problem is that it is a vital plotpoint to the story's resolution without receiving the proper amount of attention. Neither Ymir nor Fritz get any real characterisation, they are one-dimensional cardboard cutouts that we are just told at the end that they had more stuff going on but we do not get to see that. You shouldn't do "tell don't show" for your epic's conclusion.
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 20:53 |
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Retcon posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/sezmohammed/status/1252500993972948992 https://twitter.com/Jeff_Paul/status/1321331610344656897 ...and while we have other terms like "abusive relationship" to describe this sort of real life situation but nothing captures it quite like "Stockholm Syndrome" does. YF-23 posted:The Ymir/Fritz thing has lovely undertones but in isolation it's like whatever, Ymir could be a sicko who's all in on that.
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 21:26 |
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Ethiser posted:It seems even more pointless because she had all the Titan powers at one point which meant she could possibly see the future when she was alive. She and Eren could have both had a story about breaking free from what they thought was a predetermined fate, but I guess that would have been too interesting. It also would have explained her devotion to the king way better.
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 21:58 |
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The United States posted:Yeah no don't do that You are right, and I realise I misspoke by being sort of dismissive about that kind of story beat in isolation. I do think that if you want to tell a dark story like that you should give proper characterisation and make sure your characters are fully realised. Otherwise you get lovely clichés, and I feel that it's significantly worse if you're having that lovely cliché be an important plot device to the conclusion of your story. It makes it from something that could've been a background element the author didn't really think about into something that the author clearly thought about and decided was not important enough to go into further. This wasn't meant to say that misogynistic clichés are fine otherwise, rather that this is worse to the point that it's worth distinguishing.
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 21:58 |
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The Ymir and King Fritz thing is especially galling seeing as how this motherfucker - * Killed and subjugated her village and family * Cut out her tongue * Gouged one of her eyes out * [REDACTED] her and forced her to bear his children * Made said children eat her corpse. She had to have seen the latter through Paths and you mean to tell me that she would love the man that put her children through that? gently caress outta here with that, Yams.
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 23:09 |
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Vanderdeath posted:The Ymir and King Fritz thing is especially galling seeing as how this motherfucker - I'll stop saying it when the evidence stops supporting it, but nothing about this last chapter suggests this was all on Yams. Someone who spends years talking in interviews about how he doesn't think Eren and Mikasa would work, someone who quite literally sinks the ship Mikasa in chapter 130, having the ending be Eren and Mikasa? That's suspicious. Someone in that position adding a plot point of romantic love between Ymir and Fritz solely to parallel it with Mikasa's feelings for Eren? That looks a lot like someone taking the piss.
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 23:16 |
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chiasaur11 posted:I'll stop saying it when the evidence stops supporting it, but nothing about this last chapter suggests this was all on Yams. This is, in fact, exactly what Mikasa had to do.
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 23:33 |
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Isayama is going to draw on the collective wills of disappointed fans the world over to deliver a spirit bomb anime ending keep the
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 23:53 |
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Vanderdeath posted:The Ymir and King Fritz thing is especially galling seeing as how this motherfucker - If only the woman had left her abuser, smh
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# ? Apr 16, 2021 00:13 |
Eej posted:If only the woman had left her abuser, smh Thats not the issue, folks understood and were fine with the dynamic when it was "abused person can't escape their abuser". it's way less palatable to make an 11th hour switch to "actually she just really loved him SOOOOO MUCH"
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# ? Apr 16, 2021 00:20 |
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The Notorious ZSB posted:Thats not the issue, folks understood and were fine with the dynamic when it was "abused person can't escape their abuser". it's way less palatable to make an 11th hour switch to "actually she just really loved him SOOOOO MUCH" Abuse victims often do love their abuser though so even if it was done in the last pages of the manga it's not exactly an illogical plot point
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# ? Apr 16, 2021 00:42 |
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Giving Ymir romantic feelings for Fritz: 1- Doesn't add anything to the story that their slave-master relationship doesn't do already. 2- Is kinda gross!
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# ? Apr 16, 2021 00:50 |
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I don’t have a big problem with the idea, but Ymir being a godlike figure who had completely internalised being a slave, only to then finally break her chains when she’s recognised as an actual human being was just so much better. Having it revealed in the last chapter that she was actually in love despite abused and used Mikasa somehow to break it is just.... bad. That type of thing only works if we saw more instances of it being that type of love in her flashback. It would actually need a lot of buildup to make it work effectively Plus why is Eren and Mikasa’s relationship of all things used to break it??? Mikasa didn’t even truly let go at the end, she still loved him and ran away with his body to bury him in their favourite spot. If it was about breaking from love that hurts you to be truly free, that is one weird as hell way to show it.
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# ? Apr 16, 2021 00:55 |
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I also felt like Ymir broke her chains when Eren showed her compassion, which is how he got her to start the rumbling. I don’t know why she needed the Mikasa/Eren thing to happen at all. It also coincidentally killed the worm along with the host, which is what actually needed to happen to end the curse. It’s almost like all the mental bullshit and memory fuckery is from all the years of the will of the first king influencing Eren‘s mind once he got Ymir to let him have access to the power. Part of me wants to think it’s all some elaborate trick done by the hallucigenia to manipulate the host for survival, playing on their fears and dreams and making them do irrationally risky things. Maybe like cordyceps fungus controlling host brains. But nah, none of that, just gross and uncomfortable narrative choices. 🤢
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# ? Apr 16, 2021 01:04 |
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The mental image of Mikasa carrying Eren's decaying decapitated head all the way back to Paradis just to tenderly bury it under a tree is very funny to me.
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# ? Apr 16, 2021 01:50 |
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Squack McQuack posted:But lol at Reiner saying, “drat, Eren, what a guy!” That's a mistranslation from the speedscans.
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# ? Apr 16, 2021 02:19 |
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It’s my canon and you can’t take it from me.
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# ? Apr 16, 2021 02:42 |
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i dont want to monday morning quarterback things but if i was there i would have just dug a big hole in front of all the colossal titans.
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# ? Apr 16, 2021 03:01 |
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maybe Eren should have, instead of telling Louise to throw the scarf away, taken it and burned it
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# ? Apr 16, 2021 03:19 |
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Should’ve turned all Eldians into intelligent titans and taken the world
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# ? Apr 16, 2021 05:02 |
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bees x1000 posted:maybe Eren should have, instead of telling Louise to throw the scarf away, taken it and burned it Remember when Mikasa didn't comfort a kid dying of shrapnel wounds at all and just left her to die alone in horrible pain once she'd gotten what she wanted from her? Good times.
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# ? Apr 16, 2021 05:05 |
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Eren definitely ranks among the top 10 of anime & manga's Coolest Guys.
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# ? Apr 16, 2021 08:06 |
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I get the impression that Ymir's feelings for Fritz aren't really supposed to be about her (because it's true they don't add anything) and they're there to recontextualize Eren and Mikasa's relationship as having been abusive since childhood. I think it's intended to be another item on the pile of narrative elements that say "Eren sucks" but it's not super well done. You know, much like the rest of the ending.
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# ? Apr 16, 2021 12:40 |
Eej posted:Abuse victims often do love their abuser though so even if it was done in the last pages of the manga it's not exactly an illogical plot point Im not saying it's illogical. I'm saying it sucks and detracts from the narrative he'd built dropping it in the final chapter.
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# ? Apr 16, 2021 18:53 |
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Boofy posted:i dont want to monday morning quarterback things but if i was there i would have just dug a big hole in front of all the colossal titans. Gotta have a Dig Titan for that.
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 03:13 |
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I am thinking back to Eren's trial near the beginning of the series, when the MP was talking about the kidnappers he killed as a child, and going on about how, even if it was self-defense, it showed that Eren was dangerous and couldn't be trusted with the fate of humanity. It seemed completely unfair bullshit at the time, but turns out he was totally right!
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