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EP. REVIEW: Attack on Titan

Welp, guess they did improve on the spoiler[Rod Reiss] CGI. They fixed the textures, added continuity with the spoiler[holes in him] and switched to hand drawn at times.

About James' criticism of how fast the Scouts are about to understand the situation with Rod Reiss' Titan in comparison to the first season or two:

I think you alluded to this literally a paragraph later, but you have to understand that these characters are much more informed and, as a result, ready to play more than they were in Season 2 and especially in Season 1. Back then, no one knew that people could become Titans, that Titans could be intelligent or how to combat Titans en masse. Fast forward to the latest season - Eren is a Titan that has a good deal of control over his own abilities, they've fought 3 Intelligent Titans in the time since Trost arc and there are no swarm of Titans this time around, just one big abnormal turkey.

There's even a brief scene that shows the common folk growing dissatisfied with what they perceive to be the military trying to flex its muscles and assert their new authority, but nothing much comes of it

One other issue I had with this episode was that I felt it should have ended with Historia declaring herself queen. It would've wrapped things so nicely, but that last scene with Kenny stuck out like a sore thumb. I don't get why they couldn't just save it for the next episode; it's going to be all about him after all.

How in the world did the explosion end up sending all the chunks of Titan and Reiss's pot roast over the wall and into the village? It should've blasted him and most of the Titan bits back out the way he crawled in, with maybe a few chunks blown forward over the wall.

My only issue with the episode was Historia basically jumps off the fall, accelerates towards flying debris, kills her father but then never attempts to slow down hitting a lucky hay cart at speed and being miraculously unharmed

we get Historia's coronation, which was nice, though I wasn't a fan of the awkward way the episode reexplained the reasoning behind Historia's gambit last week. I understand her need to assert her royal authority as quickly as possible, but it ends up making the way the team took on Rod Reiss feel even more contrived

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we get Historia's coronation, which was nice, though I wasn't a fan of the awkward way the episode reexplained the reasoning behind Historia's gambit last week. I understand her need to assert her royal authority as quickly as possible, but it ends up making the way the team took on Rod Reiss feel even more contrived

Not sure if this addresses your complaint, but I feel like the official English subs were a bit inaccurate in this part. Historia's proposition to Erwin is translated as "Let me deal the killing blow to the Titan", whereas what she actually says is closer to "Please make it so that I'm the one who dealt the killing blow to the Titan", with the implication that this would be the official story they go with regardless of who actually kills the Titan. While we know that Historia really did have her personal reasons for wanting to confront her father one last time, the way she justifies her presence on the front lines to Erwin is an appeal to his savvy schemer side grounded in the need to create a plausible narrative to establish her legitimacy as a ruler, by less than honest means if necessary. Erwin later expressing surprise that she actually did end up landing the killing blow is less "I can't believe this gambit actually paid off" and more "I can't believe we didn't even have to embellish this story".

This newfound power on Kenny's part leads to a couple of noteworthy developments, but “Friends” also takes some time to address Kenny's relationship with Levi, which is honestly less engaging than I expected it to be.

I understand why this scene would arrive now, at the conclusion of season 3's first story arc, but it's still a janky way to reintroduce a plot point that we haven't gotten hints of for over a year.

Historia's proposition to Erwin is translated as "Let me deal the killing blow to the Titan", whereas what she actually says is closer to "Please make it so that I'm the one who dealt the killing blow to the Titan", with the implication that this would be the official story they go with regardless of who actually kills the Titan.

To be honest, this sequence is probably more noteworthy for how much time we spend in the mysterious subterranean city that has only ever been hinted at before