Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20190308225839/@comment-8458738-20190314211652

YSL Slime wrote: This was a substantive chapter but some of the revelations we've been getting recently have been disappointing and don't make too much sense to me.

-We all were dying to know what Zeke and Eren talked about when they were both in Marley. We finally get it and it's pretty much:

ZEKE: Eren, I want to kill off the Eldian race. What do you think?

EREN: My dad killed innocent women and children, but he did it so that we could live.

ZEKE: So that was a good thing?

EREN: No. It would be better if we'd never been born. I'm in.

Zeke's supposed to be this mastermind, and very ruthless as well. How can he be so naive? I'm sure the author will come up with an explanation down the road, but in the mean time it comes across as bad writing.

-The plot armor for Zeke and Levi is getting ridiculous. When the manga/anime started you felt like anyone could die. Of course, Eren lived, but fine, he's the main character. But the resurrections for Reiner, Zeke, Armin, and now Levi make the manga feel more generic and predictable. Any threat these characaters face won't feel real.

-Floch is acting like a maniacle villain, with the evil grins and all that. The idea of the Yeagerists pulling off a coup d'etat is a good one. But making their leader into a stereotypical villain comes across as silly. I kinda think the reason why Zeke is doing something that seem illogical despite he is a smart person is because he is driven by emotion by the fact Zeke does honestly think Eren as his brother his only family. Once you are driven by emotion you tend to do things that do not make sense.

I do admit that the plot armour is ridiculous to some degrees but there are I think I can explain the Zeke part (or some attempt to), at the moment Zeke lost consciousness, he was looking at a flower then that flower turn to a titan. I have a feel like there is a flower plant connection to Ymir Fritz and the Titan powers that be, it has been hinted I don't know which manga chapter honestly but I know from the anime in season 1 in episode 7 or 8, that after Eren transformed partially a Titan to protect Mikasa and Armin from cannon fire, Armin noticed there was a flower in the ground, he commented that it wasn't there before. For Levi I don't think he will come out a okay as he did lose a hand and might have lost a lot of blood, at worst he will die, or at best he will be comatose or alive but crippled for life & unable to fight.

For Floch, I admit he is acting a bit too stereotypical villain but I still kinda like him because of his personality and how much he is a serious threat. However I think of Floch as a mirror or Yeagerist counterpart to Yelena, in fact they are both very similar as they are both leading a group of rag-tag of people for a cause (albeit differently) and both of them are devout followers of the Yeager brothers who believe they are godly. Floch is pretty much Eren's Yelena to her Zeke.