Honestly how did people expect the show to end?
Just finished AoT (yep, 3 years too late, guess it’s never late to do so). I honestly cannot believe that people hated that finale and thought of it as having too many wholes.
I don’t mean to rage bait but looking at the show as it has always been - a severe criticism to fascist ideologies, hatred circle and how the victimise people can turn into the opressors -, I couldn’t think myself a better ending for AoT.
Did ppl want it to end Naruto style, with a talking no jutsu made by armin turning Eren’s mind around?
Yeah I wanted to see eren and mikasa together but obviously by the rhythm of the story, that wouldn’t be the end.
In their universe, I give reason to eren doing the rumbling and evening the worlds population to make sure they wouldn’t be able to attack Paradis after he rumbled. Had he destroyed only Marley, the world would most def retaliate. And yet I liked the fact that he admitted that he also did it for himself, out of the hatred he felt when he saw the real world - not the fantastic prehistorical world he had seen in the books, but a real full of ppl world. Imagine you growing up thinking you were the only humans left only to find out the whole world simply excluded you???
Saw a lot of hate on the small scene of him admitting he was responsible for his mum’s death but even though that information was a bit scattered as many people have told in this web before, he doesn’t have an ultimate power of writing the past, he simply acessed a previous event with his combining creator and attack titan’s powers. At least that’s how a see it.
The part about him becoming a bird is lame but not canon, the end of the manga shows simply mikasa growing up having kids dying and erens tree growing and the world evolving.
And also in my interpretation, Ymir chose mikasa because she wanted to understand her devotion and love for eren. She saw her old self in her but at the same time in a way maybe she felt mikasa loved her aswell, since eren and her kind of become the same entity in the end…? dunno I felt like she finally had her platonic love for the king full filled w mikasa’s love and sacrifice. And since there’s no next shingeki for erre to spy in his memories, makes sense he didn’t knowing the future. Also I don’t think Ymir’s powers where able to simply finish the titans curse since it came out of hatred and even seke himself created a solution of ppl not being able to bare any more children - if it were possible to extinguish the titans curse at that point, wouldn’t he simply do so?
I looked it up online but couldn’t find any wholes in the story. Everything was tied up. Even the first series in the manga - eren waking up from a dream and asking mikasa about her hair growing longer -. The scene in the 1st movie of armin hearing eren and waking up and this being revealed later.
The only thing I cannot forgive is hanges death. She didn’t have to die even though her ending was peak.
But I guess she would’ve hated a world without titans….
I was debating w a friend that disliked the final due to the rumbling being active and all but it seems as if ppl have forgotten that Marley was plotting to kill every last person in paradis. The talking on jutsu wouldn’t have done anything. They had to response the treat with force otherwise they’d all have died. Conny and Jean have a conversation in the battlefield if I’m not mistaken about how the regret saving the world even though they knew they had to do so. They essentially betrayed their home in order to save the ppl who tried to kill them and would have done so if not for eren.
This show amazingly verses about the ways of the humans to create hate and justify their actions ultimately reinforcing hate. It is an allegory to the worlds current status. And it sadly shows that it’s never going to end. I think of it as a masterpiece who could have been discussed extensively in a philosophical class, science politics class and psychology class.
Sorry for the long post and escuse my english
Just fiy I don’t support genocide and all but I can understand erens feelings. As he said he was always like this and when he saves mikasa when they are younger, it is clear that he’s a bit psychopath-ish by the way he kills and looks at the guys.
That being said if I have to choose between my home country being wiped out of the Planet X the planet, dunno if I’d have the balls to choose the rest of the world. I’ the end, humans are beings of community