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DamnGlitch posted:I love the first two eps but even with the manga wrapping up, idk how they’d fit it in a regular two cour season. I feel like we might see a movie for the last arc. Final “season”. Reliable leaks say that the current set of episodes will not finish the series. There will either be a part 2 a year from now or a movie or two to finish it up.
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Gaj posted:I just realized Anne smashing the grasshopper was her trying to de-humanize her future actions of stepping on people oh my god. She also stomps on Petra the same way.
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Alan_Shore posted:Roger! I guess I didn't pick up on the fact the Marleyans didn't know where the Attack Titan was. If haven't already, check out the two-part OVA about her being a detective in the military police. It really helps you understand her better. It wasn't written by Isayama, but events from it have been mentioned in the main manga since then, so it's basically canon.
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I've actually never watched No Regrets, but I make it a point to tell everyone to do Ilse's Notebook and Wall Sina, Goodbye. I think it's kind of absurd that Ilse's Notebook wasn't inserted as a main series episode at some point, because it really has some important poo poo in it. Been catching a friend up lately, and I made sure we watched that OVA before starting season 2.
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Gantolandon posted:To be fair, he had it easier inside the walls. Having passed Warrior training and having taken part in an actual war, he was like a college student forced to take a class in an elementary school. It's easy to be the responsible and upstanding one when you are the second best soldier in your unit. Especially since the biggest worry on their minds is the Colossal or Armored Titans attacking again, which... well, Reiner doesn't have to worry about.
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Irony Be My Shield posted:Really like the idea that the entire titan invasion was something a bunch of kids had to make up on the fly after their actual leader got killed. One scene that got cut that I wish they had included was Bert and Ernie riding on Annie's back while she lured a horde of Titans to the wall before they kicked it. And they were so not in control of the situation and like "gently caress this was a bad idea".
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The way I see it, Annie has severe anger problems (kicking Reiner to a bloody pulp, breaking her father's leg in the OVA), but doesn't want to kill people who aren't threatening her. Hence why she mainly attacked soldiers who got in her way or posed some sort of threat. Because even when she was brutal with those kills, she was still horrified when Eren knocked her into the church and made her crush a bunch of civilians. This last episode also made it clear that she doesn't believe the propaganda that Marley spews and has no sense of superiority or patriotism. She's out there entirely for the sake of herself and loved ones. She and Armin have a bit of a modestly friendly relationship, so she probably wasn't able to distance herself and think of him as an insect And, as chiasaur11 said, Armin and Annie's strategically reckless back and forth is a bit of a running dynamic. The OVA is really interesting because you've got Annie struggling with why she's invested in this missing person's case when their end goal will result in everyone's deaths anyway. And then she eats a donut. Watch "Wall Sina, Goodbye". Beefstew fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Dec 23, 2020 |
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Thank God, they added the scene of Pieck crawling on the ground back in. Also, what a loving ending.
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Apparently a lot of people hate the Female Titan arc, but I don't really see what's wrong with it. I certainly think it's better than Trost. It just gets outclassed by... season 2. And then again by the stuff in 3. And then again by the stuff in 4. But I also like Annie, so that probably helps.
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Jan 1, 2021 09:11
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2 movies could easily finish it if the anime leaves off where I think it will. 1 could maaaybe adapt 10 chapters, but they need at least 15. A Part 2 is the best option, followed by 2 movies, followed by 1 movie, followed by oh god please don't try to do the whole thing in 16 episodes.
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I woke up to a thousand posts in various places complaining about the CG. I watched it and it was fine. Episode whips.
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The CG is fine when it's still and really good when it's moving fast. In between it can look kinda wonky, but nothing dealbreaking.
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That was cool. I hope she make a machine gun.
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The sunlight rule seems to apply only to mindless, autonomous Titans. The ones that attacked Utgard Castle were compelled to move at night because Zeke was controlling them. Reiner and Ymir had a conversation later about the rest of the Titans in the forest being able to move at night, which Reiner denied. Ymir deduced that it had something to do with "that monkey".
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chiasaur11 posted:She actually left after Eren showed the power of the Founding Titan, so she knew Paradis had a hole card, and that Historia had someone who could protect her. (And, judging by Eren not saying anything about finding out the secret of how he used the Founding Titan that we saw, Ymir's a pretty good judge of character on that point. Well, she's a pretty good judge of character in general, so that's no surprise.) Thank you for being the first person I've seen who understands Ymir's story. She lived a selfless lie, and was punished for it. When she got another chance she wanted to be true to herself and her desires, to look out only for herself. But she couldn't overcome her own nature, because she's fundamentally too good, able to sympathize with both the Paradis folks and the Warriors. She realizes that the true self she's trying to live is her selfless side, and the abrasive and selfish own was front she put on to avoid being hurt. And because of her capacity for sympathy and understanding, she takes the one course of action that, in her view, would save everyone - she would buy time for Eren and Historia to retreat, Bert and Ernie would avoid getting eaten by Titans, and she would be dragged back to Marley so they and their families wouldn't suffer, even knowing that it would all result in her death. Ymir is a loving hero.
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The second season was considered weaker on release, but now it seems like folks have come around on it 4 years later, and it's very well-liked. I like the second season more each time I watch it. I think it just scratches a completely different itch from the first season, and some folks weren't expecting that.
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Jan 23, 2021 06:23
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Alan_Shore posted:Even though they keep showing the dead civilians and it's awful, at the same time... GET hosed Not to mention that this is an internment zone for Eldians. The homes they destroyed and the people they killed were probably mostly innocent civilians who are likewise oppressed.
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Jan 25, 2021 10:33
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Two movies or roughly 10 episodes would cover what's left after we've finished these 16. But yeah, the "Final Season" is not ending the series, at least not without a part 2. The current 16 episode run will take us through this arc and the next one, but not the one after.
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ninjewtsu posted:Can Zeke turn people into titans, or does he control the titanification process after they've already been injected?
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I loved seeing Gabi go "we're going to avenge Zeke", and Jean was like "haha, yeah, about that..."
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Catalina posted:I feel like either people’s brains make that scene becomes something that can never be forgotten, or something that is repressed so far it can never be remembered. Fun fact: Manga readers were convinced that the poo poo chair would not make it into the show when season 3 was airing. Then everyone was surprised that it did. The chapter covering this week's episode was released the following week, and we realized why the poo poo chair was essential.
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Seldom Posts posted:You're confusing plot (why she does it) with symbolic representation (what it means). Yeah, it's pretty easy to derive meaning into anything you want if you outright ignore the text.
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All the poo poo he said is low-key racist and assuming that "dumb Japanese man doesn't understand WW2". Says the white American. Hmmm, I wonder if AoT is commenting on American internment camps and the atom bomb at all? Nah... Dan is legendarily bad when it comes to anime. Ever heard his Evangelion takes? He genuinely believes it's a screed about incels and that Human Instrumentality was a good thing and Shinji was bad for stopping it. He is kind of an idiot.
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Ccs posted:Dang yeah that's pretty dumb. Lindsay's Hobbit reviews are pretty much the gold standard for video essay film crit imo, but maybe she's not as good at creative writing? It is a different skill set. But folks really should stick to their wheelhouse, as Dan has repeatedly proven.
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This very intelligent poster looked at the super white society that staged two mushroom cloud inducing Colossal Titan attacks on an enemy island nation and also put the members of that ethnic group within its own borders in concentration camps and said, "clearly the nazi parallels are about Korea and not noble and just American military of WW2." But that's irrelevant, because pigeon-hole 1:1 interpretations are for 10th graders.
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Ccs posted:Marley appears to be a military dictatorship that is also manipulated from the shadows by those guys that Eren ate a few episodes ago. FMA also draws comparisons between Japanese internment camps in the US and Nazi ones (Fuhrer signs order mirroring the one Roosevelt did, but for a middle eastern coded people). FMA actually handles this issue worse because there's this dumb scene where an Ishvalan soldier at Briggs brings up his animosity on account of the whole genocide thing, and Ed is like "well, an Ishvalan man was mean to me once. I judge on a personal level. I don't see race." And I never got the sense that Brotherhood was interested in critiquing Ed on this point. FMA 03 actually did confront Ed's subliminal racism more directly, but I digress. The thing is, using poo poo as allegory, where each thing needs to stand in for one specific other thing, and all of the relationships between the signifiers and what they represent need to be preserved - that is a really bad way to go about reading pretty much anything. All metaphors are messy. And thank God for it, because literature would suck poo poo otherwise.
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Catalina posted:Since we’re all rolling in the poo poo here, I guess I’ll come in with some more poop that I’ve touched. As far as I'm aware, no. No source, no name, no screenshot, nothing. People believed what they wanted. If I'm mistaken, please let me know.
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Ccs posted:The people who think AoT is fascist probably watch Starship Troopers and don’t pick up on any of the satire. I've said the same thing a million times, and I saw someone else also make this point on Twitter a couple days ago - only for some dumb butt to respond saying that both were fascist. Some loving people...
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Not to mention that Isayama specifically cited his inspiration as coming from the guy eventually giving up war and living a humble life as a school teacher. But who gives a poo poo about what was actually said when there's clicks to be had and Book Walker subscriptions to be sold.
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Kingtheninja posted:Where is he? I'd love to check it out. End of 56, beginning of Grisha's flashback.
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Polygon also just reposted the exact same article, unmodified from 2 years ago, while the final season was airing. While also putting out regular news updates about the new episodes and where to watch them. Polygon is loving trash.
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I, for one, appreciate your endless positivity.
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Alan_Shore posted:Haha this is my reward for saying AoT isn't fascist huh Yeah it's 100% from the dude who was butthurt about getting probated.
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I felt better about the manga's ending after they released the extended version - which is funny, because it seemed to make everyone else's opinion of it even worse. If the anime goes with the revised version that was included with the physical release, I'll probably be okay with it. But I also suspect the anime might just get an original ending. Keep in mind that opinions of the manga's final arc were mostly very positive until literally the last chapter. To the point where I think it's totally possible to just stop at the end of the penultimate chapter and leave it there, if you like. Bottom line, make up your own minds, and try not to let the opinions of internet randos get you down.  chiasaur11 posted:I really liked the manga right up until the last couple chapters, then felt it really fell apart at the finish line, for whatever that's worth. I think it will go over better in anime format. I point back to serumbowl - when that chapter was first released, it was hated. When season 3 got around to the episode in Midnight Sun, it became one of the most treasured episodes of the show. Presentation and pacing counts for a lot, and can really help sell poo poo, even with seemingly minor changes. Beefstew fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Oct 20, 2021 |
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Also, some of the best stuff in the series is still to come in the next season.
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chiasaur11 posted:I don't think there will be an outright original ending, but other than that, I'm actually with you. I still think most of the last chapter sucked, but the extended version made me feel like it was able to complete itself thematically, even if a lot of the plot proper felt like a mess. There's stuff in the end credits of season 3 that wasn't in the manga at all and we still have no idea what the gently caress it was about, so I'm expecting something like that. And yeah, I agree that the very very very end was uncharacteristically messy, but took solace in the fact that the extended ending, despite being very brief, better understood the tone and themes of the story overall. Without spoilers, obviously: was the reception in the manga thread that the extended ending was an improvement, however slight? I stopped visiting it because it became a bummer. But it seems like every other community, even the ones that embraced the first ending, loving loathe the extended cut.
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I made this shitpost 2 or 3 years ago, but it's worth repeating: In the Lost Girls OVA, Annie is introduced to donuts. She is clearly not familiar with them. Ergo, there are no donuts in Marley. Before retaking Shiganshina, the scouts find "black liquid" in a pot that Zeke and Bert and Ernie were drinking. Ergo, Paradis does not know about coffee. We finally know the union that can bring them together.
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Unconfirmed word on the street is that this still won't be the "final" season and will likely cover up to Chapter 131 out of 139. Folks are suspecting a movie to finish it out. No idea if this is true, but some apparently reliable leakers have said so, and if the season is really gonna be 12 episodes, I don't think it will be able to reach the ending.
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Maera Sior posted:Wait have I missed out on some fun AU shenanigans by not reading the manga? It's mostly gags but there's also secret foreshadowing there. It's not "canon" per se, but there are thematic parallels with a lot of the things the characters do that can inform your interpretation of the main series.
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Brutakas posted:Wouldn't it be more convenient for Eren to access the founding titan's power with Historia instead of Zeke? Actually, the galaxy brain play would be to get Historia's help before going to Zeke in order to pre-command Ymir with the founder's ability in case Zeke were to try something. To fully access the Founding Titan's power, he specifically needs a Titan or royal blood, and he promised not to let Historia become a Titan. Zeke was his only option since Dina and Rod are dead.
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