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Freeman1378 wrote: Warrior655 wrote: Freeman1378 wrote: This was probably the best chapter of the last few for me as it introduced a pretty interesting conflict for the next arc and had some rock solid character interactions.

Pros:

- Connie's rage filled tirade on Zeke/Eren was the highlight of the chapter for me as I feel this has been a long time coming and it's great to see him finally receive a big dose of character development as he has been a character that Isayama kinda forgot about for like 50 chapters. I'm definetely intrigued to see how his character is going to progress from here on out (ex. Is he going to attack Zeke out of spite or is he going to keep it cool in the battles to come).

- The opening scene was great as it revealed many fascinating details about Historia's pregnancy that complicate the narrative in fascinating ways (who's the person beneath the hood? and is Historia firmly on team Eren?) and the scene ended on an interesting and sinister note with Nicolo bringing that bottle of wine as it's probably spiked with Zeke's spinal fluid (or poison) based on the way Nicolo is framed in shadow and his ominous line of dialogue to the servant (did he bring it on the order of Zeke, Eren, or another individual?).

- Magath and Pieck saw through Zeke's bullshit showing that Paradis is going to regret not being able to eliminate them beforehand as they are clearly intelligent and dangerous foes unlike Marley's previous commanders.

- Reiner and the warriors planning a sneak attack through the north is great (great job by Isayama on foreshadowing this in the late 90's) and coupled with the oncoming Zeke/Eren conflict this next arc is going to be amazingly chaotic with sky high stakes which is way better than everyone sitting around waiting for the other to make a move like the Cold War.

Cons:

- Gabi's scenes were kinda terrible in this chapter as her "no Falco muh racial oppresion!" scene was unintenionally hilarious for me and trying to bash out that girls brains with a rock was seriously uncool (to be fair to Gabi, Sasha was an enemy soldier and while her killing the guard was cruel the rest of the cast would have done the same thing in the same scenario) and I guess that girl is Sasha's little sis to boot (that's who I think she is anyways) so it's probably going to be used as a cheap way to mellow Gabi out by making her feel bad for killing Sasha.

- The flashback was awkardly paced and didn't really add much to the overall chapter as it confirmed stuff that I had already figured out prior (Eren truly cares, friendship is magic etc).

Mixed:

- I don't know how to feel about the situation with Historia's baby daddy as we kinda got a non-answer in it's probably the farmer guy's kid and if it is it's kinda a dead storyline as we know jacksh*t about this guy or his personality so it's hard to care for him going forward outside of him being a plot device and I feel like he'll just get killed in the Warriors sneak attack anyways to make Historia feel bad but if Farmer man is a red herring than it's unnecessarily obtrusive and melodramatic to boot. So hopefully Isayama resolves this sooner rather than later unlike how he handled the WHT's current possession as that was just straight up disappointing when he dragged it out for 3 chapters and then revealed that Eren had possession. The Gabi I've already discuss, so I'm not going to drill it further.

Connie being angry is discussed as well, but good.

Magath, Piek and warriors are good, indicating that they aren't stupid and fills in the Marleys' suspicions when they were eavesdropping on their warriors' conversation.

I like how Nicolo is going to get another bottle for those officials. I don't think that it is filled with poison because it would make a crime scene; jeopardising whatever plots is coming up. I have reason to believe it could be filled with Zekes' spinal fluid so when the time comes, they will be used in some form of distraction against paradise.

No doubt that there will be a conflict between the Yeager Brothers. Even though the way things are going with Eren, he still cares about his friends and paradise. Finding Zeke getting up to something will make him attack Zeke.

The whole issue with connie, Jean, Mikasa and Armin is awesome. It put things into perspective on who still believes that Eren remains on their side. Like I said above, despite everything that has being going on with Eren, He still cares about his friends and paradise. Something tells me that there is definitely going to be a Armin versus Eren, Probably in the next chapter. I can see it coming soon and Mikasa will probably choose Eren over Armin, just a hunch. - Yea I believe the bottle is spiked with Zeke's spinal fluid similar to what Zeke did in Ragako as a way of getting rid of opposition within the government (it would blow to lose Nile though he seems like a good guy to me) and poison can only kill whoever drank it while having titans to control on the island can kill many more especially if Zeke triggers it during a meeting with the government.

- Zeke is still a mystery box but I believe that currently him and Eren are most likely allies as they had a lot of time to communicate in Marley and the Historia pregnancy seems to be designed to stave off the transference of Zeke's powers (I think the man in the hood is Eren). So maybe Eren convinced Zeke to go with Eren's permanent solution (vs the Hizuru plan) or something else that we haven't seen yet as they seem pretty hellbent on reaching each other while the government wants to keep them apart. I'm not sure but possible that Eren may have tried to convince Zeke, not knowing that his older half-brother may have an agenda that opposes Erens'.