Board Thread:Theories/@comment-26932251-20151019075747/@comment-27096343-20151019192528

I've actually been thinking about that for quite a while, whenever I used to watch the 1st opening from the 1st season and when the Title shows up at the end, there are animated chains around it, also (Spoiler from the manga), the 1st king who's will is passed on from generation to generation within the Reiss family seems hellbent on keeping everyone inside despite possessing coordinate ability (which sounds  awfully strange and doesn't make sense, if he wants the best for them then why not order all the titans to kill eachother? May take time but sure as hell works as proven by Eren). Also, Hajime Isayama has done a brilliant job blurring the line between black and white, we start the series looking at the world through the eyes of Eren Jaeger, a kid who dreams of leaving the walls with his friend and adopted sister to see the outside world, he looses his mom and his hometown after two terrifying titans bust the walls, and vows to destroy every titan there is. As the audience sympathisez with him and hopes he achieves his goals, we splendidly forget that we're looking at this from a single person's perspective. What Eren preceives is a mere fraction of the truth, heck... it may not even be that important! As the series progresses, and a lot of light is shed on "the villains", their supposed "evil nature" becomes very questionable. We find out that the armored and colossal tian didn't really want to bust the walls and feel sorry for Eren's loss, that the titans aren't terrible, they're just people stuck in a freakin "nightmare" where they have no control over their actions, the nobility withtin the walls are genuine assholes, the royal family are terrible and don't want humanity to ever leave the walls (Isn't that the whole point of fighting titans in the 1st place?), Eren's dad came from outside the walls (and he's hiding the most important piece of info in that basement of his, also what if he had the same mission that Reiner and Bert had! Get the coordinate! which he did manage to get), that beast titan is still a question mark but is obviously very powerful. All points to the fact that what we've seen so far, is not what we "think" it is. The tians are just people (like Ymir said) stuck in a titan body that they cann't do anything about. Now, what if the people who believe that building the walls would protect them are instead imprisoned within those walls, and what if they were the bad guys? What if the walls have been built to perpetuate the existence of titans and prevent their salvation? (along with that of humanity). Now, about the people being bad.... I don't know about that, it seems to me that there are good and bad people on both sides (titans and humans), which is a more realistic take on WAR.