Attack on Titan: Shingeki no Kyojin

[Buffalobiian]

Final Season Part 3 Episode 2 (actually the final one)



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-That was quite conclusive and meta.
A slight flare of Evangelion TV ending feel, but actually making sense mostly.
It also reminds me of Code Geass S2's ending in terms of Eren taking on the sacrificial role and close friends crying for him - but better, because that S2 was a trainwreck.

-So Historia actually banged some random dude? The baby did look a little like Eren but it seems like she isn't.

-One aspect that didn't quite make sense to me is how some "past titans" broke free from Ymir's absolute control.

Ymir loving Fritz presumably happened while she was favoured by him, but she was initially beat up as a slave, let some pigs run off deliberately because she thought they should be free, but after getting titan powers she decided to go back to Fritz as a slave instead of killing him? That logic seems strange, especially since we know now that she wasn't wronged. She actually did let the animals go.

Then she was obeying Zeke until Eren hugged her and said that she must have called him here - and we're alluded to this happening when Eren was sleeping under a tree once. But if that was the case, it'd be because she wanted freedom or something. If love was her driving force and reason to serve, she'd have no need to fight join Eren's fight against non-titans or have any qualms about Zeke (the current royal family representative as far as she's concerned) wanting to sterilise titans.

This love theme actually doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.



-The bird wrapping the tail of the scarf around Mikasa's neck (as a symbol of Eren loving her/asking her to take care of herself) was missed by me initially. I thought it tried to pull the scarf away to say "forget about me", which didn't make sense. Only after reading things online and inspecting the scarf closely did I realise that the bird flipped the scarf tail around Mikasa to go from 1.5 loops to 2 loops, effectively wrapping it around her more.

-And Ackermans were supposed to be immune to memory manipulation, so "You got your memories back too, right? Of the times Eren came to see us." couldn't have happened.

That said, she had a vision unique to her where they had eloped to a cabin. Not sure if that's the substitute..



-I thought Marley pointing guns towards Eldians immediately after Eren died was hilarious. All Eren really managed to do was just even the playing field, though it's hard to imagine that 20% of humanity is an even match for Paradise Island when the former has such a technological advantage.