Board Thread:Manga/@comment-31940900-20160614173614/@comment-26932251-20160615064739

MasteroftheWastes wrote: They're beaten and broken. If only that were true, give em like six hours and they can turn into titans again, assuming they don't have anything else in their bag of tricks, which they probably do.

Look, I don't fault you for being sympathetic to them, but from the perspective of the SC, it's in their rational interests to execute them now that the opportunity has (apparently but looks can be deceiving) presented itself.

Yes we can talk about the tragedy of the child soldier, which is basically what they are just with titan shifter capabilities instead of AK47's, but part of that tragedy is inherently that they are lambs to the slaughter when things don't go as planned.

I mean, to be fair to you, cause I know we butted heads, but if I made an Attack On Titan movie, I think I would focus on Annie the most because I think she's an exceptionally fascinating tragic character.

But I think it would be terrible writing for the Survey Corps to not behave rationally when they have the chance.

Also, personally, I've become kind of cold towards Bertolt in the past few chapters, he was more of a tragic character previously in terms of being a complex personality, now he's become something of an apathetic sociopath and I hate sociopaths, they bore me.

Furthermore, I think Bertolt has internalized whatever shithead ideology or objective that he has been beholden to. Like, in that last conversation with Armin I'm just grossed out by his sheer arrogance. You know, just no premise of negotiation or give or take or that they have any value, man, he turned, maybe on some level he might know that he's already dead, he saw his comrade's head blown off, on some level perhaps seeing that made him know that he's in deep.