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Y
Sep 29, 2004

it's time to step up
It's not like the floorboard thing is some passing moment either. We see her grab the knife hard enough to break the handle, then launch herself off the floor hard enough to shatter it, and then it cuts back to the shattered floor as we end scene. This is way different than, for example, her tossing Eren around like a ragdoll with one hand, which you can write off as a genre convention or something (although as this isn't a series where people have superpowers for comedic purposes it does come off as suspicious in context).

People are reading into the moment because the series is full of foreshadowing both overt and subtle, not because Mikasa is a woman or Asian. People weren't being misogynist by bringing up the Annie-as-Female-Titan theory, either.

Y fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Apr 21, 2013

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Y
Sep 29, 2004

it's time to step up

Ethiser posted:

At a certain point is Eren even in control of his actions? He’s in a circular loop of his his future self influencing his past self to become his future self to influence his past self.

He shouldn't be. It'd be like blaming Quaid for Hauser's choices in Total Recall. Eren before and after connecting to the shared memory vault are very literally different people, unless personhood is defined by having the same body and not the mind inside it.

None of the characters in the story appear to realize this, despite the fact that Eren suggests this exact thing when he tells Armin he's been polluted by Bertholdt's memories. Right before he says this to Armin, he makes sure to specify he is not being coerced and is doing everything of his own free will. Take that as you will.

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