Attack on Titan: Shingeki no Kyojin

[MFauli]

Man, I´m really glad that I´m somehow blind for that "shitty animation". Whole episode looked fantastic as always to me. Also, what the fuck is up with all those "too much talking"-complaints? Heard these before. Um, I´m glad to have an anime that isn´t all action. That would be for kids. A good story needs build up, and 20 minutes are not enough to have both in a good balance, at least not week after week. Without "talking", the twists wouldn´t feel as impactful.

The "action, action all the time!"-concept works for something ridiculous like Jojo. It doesn´t work for everything.

[David75]

I guess that last scene offers 2 options:

-Eren needs some time to control the titan he creates. During that period, he attacks anything. Or he's so exhausted he can't control his Titan. Or, when not other threat is around he falls back to humans. Great power need control and experience, he obviously lacks in those since he just discovered his powers.

-The other option is the usual: it seems like I'm attacking you, but in fact I'm saving you from a threat behind/below/around you. Like there was a titan hidden below Mikasa. Overused, but why not.

[NeoCybercoin]

I doubt there was a Titan below Mikasa. That would mean that it was in the house. Also...last time he became a Titan he wanted to protect and now he just attacks the one he protected earlier. Maybe he really does need a clear mental image. Can't have doubts when become a Titan it seems.

[Kraco]

I doubt there was a Titan below Mikasa. That would mean that it was in the house. Also...last time he became a Titan he wanted to protect and now he just attacks the one he protected earlier. Maybe he really does need a clear mental image. Can't have doubts when become a Titan it seems.

Wanted to protect? He was well past protecting, after having saved Armin. He was in the titan's gastric juices already, wondering if that's how he's going to die, without achieving anything at all. If he had a mental image, it was that: Why he's about to perish before having vanquished scores of titans like he swore he would. Now his mental image should be no less: How to move the big rock.

Edit: Uh... I completely managed to forget the cannonball transformation. So, yeah.

[Buffalobiian]

I don't think the previews have trolled us yet, and the preview has Armin slashing Eren while saying he's going berserk. I'd say Eren's going berserk.

[Ryllharu]

"KILL THEM ALL! Waaagh!" is a pretty clear mental image, simple, easy to carry out and only involves two steps: Find 'em, Kill 'em. Zero discretion. So is, "Protect friends/self from cannonball!" Only one step there: Block it.

"Move that rock into that hole," is an order of magnitude more complicated. It requires awareness of an explicit target, and explicit action, and an explicit destination. There are a host of distractions along the way.

Eren doesn't know what the hell he is doing with this power. It's only the third time he's ever used it, and only the second time he's done it willingly.

I'm willing to give him a break on this one for a little bit.

[shinta|hikari]

If he so much as scratches Mikasa, he deserves to lose both his arms and legs.







They will grow back again anyway. Can't make Mikasa sad with him being hurt or dead.

[DarthEnderX]

The line thickness in parts of this episode were just astounding...


Anyway, not surprised at all about the ending. At no point has he ever shown to have any actual conciousness in Titan form. He doesn't even remember anything that happened while he was in it. I don't know what made any of them think he'd actually be able to control it.

Or he's so exhausted he can't control his Titan.

I was honestly surprised he wasn't given time to eat and rest etc.

The first time he used it, it lasted a long time, until he'd basically exhausted it. The second time, which he used right after his first one burned out, he couldn't even make a complete titan. I'm surprised it didn't occur to him that he might need to replenish himself a big before being able to make another fully functional titan.

Surprisingly fast

That's how fast they normally are. Not sure why they've been so slow with this series in the past.

[Buffalobiian]

if they are humans, how did they get their powers though?

They're part of some group that Eren's father is also a researcher of. Perhaps they're some dark underground society that is bent on destroying mankind, but Eren's dad opposed it somehow. It sounds something like that anyway. I can't imagine someone high-up in society wanting this type of shit though, they're better off sitting on top of their hill of peasants. It sounds more like some lower-class revolutionaries got their hands on some long-lost samples and true history of how the titans came about.

Revision: The commander's story is true. Humans created Titans to unite humans against a common enemy. Eren's dad was part of a secret group who monitored society. Some people thought the current humans could do with a bit of butt-kicking and used their Colossal and Armoured forms to scare them.

Eren seems to emerge from the back of the neck, where the recruits were also taught to cut. Pretty safe bet to say that's the central control point of these titans. What remains to be seen is whether you can drag a human controller out of any of them.

[Killa-Eyez]

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Just barely below the neck. Makes me think about the others...

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Eren seems to emerge from the back of the neck, where the recruits were also taught to cut. Pretty safe bet to say that's the central control point of these titans. What remains to be seen is whether you can drag a human controller out of any of them.

Yesh...

It's a real twisted way to get back at humanity though, becoming huge to eat them. Straight up cannibalism right there, son. That is assuming all titans are controlled by humans and all humans have remained their consciousness while doing so...

[Buffalobiian]

Yesh...

It's a real twisted way to get back at humanity though, becoming huge to eat them. Straight up cannibalism right there, son. That is assuming all titans are controlled by humans and all humans have remained their consciousness while doing so...

I'm not sure that all titans are controlled by humans or are even reversible. I was thinking more that the original titans were created by humans (possibly from real humans), while the special ones have been fine-tuned with special powers and reversibility.

[Killa-Eyez]

Well I think all titans are human controlled, just not consciously. Like Eren lost his control in the last ep, the titans might be in this constant uncontrollable state. I think it requires some mental tweaking (injections Eren's dad gives?) to not only become one but to consciously control it also.

Eren just needs to hurry the F back to his old basement and discover some substantial shit so we may take some educational guesses as to how the titans came about and for what purpose.

[KrayZ33]

that would be weird, unless the titan starts to consume its host after some time, because we've only seen eren emerge from a vaporizing titan body


maybe humans unleashed "normal" titans at first, then started to use "abnormal" ones and then later human controlled.

its like having an army of beasts, sooner or later you want to control them properly

[MFauli]

Maybe the titans are "controlled" by the collective consciousness of all the people a titan ate. What allowed Eren to fully take over control was his dad´s medicine, that somehow separated Eren´s mind from the other victims. Whatever.

[David75]

Non-Eren titans appear out of nowhere, without anyone spotting anything beforehand.

If Titans are all transformed beings, maybe we can think of other livning being thant humans?
Like rats, frogs etc? That could explain some of the abnormals behaviour.
That could also explain why they can transform so near to the walls. A human would be easier to spot, even from those high walls.

[Kraco]

Non-Eren titans appear out of nowhere, without anyone spotting anything beforehand.

If Titans are all transformed beings, maybe we can think of other livning being thant humans?
Like rats, frogs etc? That could explain some of the abnormals behaviour.
That could also explain why they can transform so near to the walls. A human would be easier to spot, even from those high walls.

They manifest the behavior of no higher animals, like mammals. Most of the titans behave like some stupid insects or fish.

If humans developed Titans to unify humanity, it was an experiment gone wrong on a godly scale. Humans are next to extinct, assuming these really are the only humans left and the denizens of this city aren't just frogs in a well. Though it can't be denied that Eren's ability does suggest the origins must be related to humans and control was probably an intended attribute from the beginning.

[MFauli]

I´m just sometimes wondering ... what does the rest of the world look like? So we have a rather small area that´s protected by 3 walls. Okay. What about the big rest of the planet? Since humans only exist within these walls, why would titans roam the, say, opposite side of that planet? What I mean, is, these people REALLY should investigate some more :>

[NeoCybercoin]

The investigating you mention is sending a couple of squads into the world that's filled with Titans ( according to lore anyway) . Why risk that when you are too busy surviving inside the walls?

[David75]

Other details:
No attack at night yet
No attack under rain
Titans attack from the south.

[MFauli]

The "no attack under rain" sounds interesting considering the extreme body heat of the titans ... but it´s too stupid to be relevant, when you think about it some more. "Signs" anyone?