Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20190908104148/@comment-40015750-20190923163015

TKGriffiths wrote: SunWarriorAsahi wrote:

1) Listen. If he can't influence the timeline at all, then having him see the future is utter nonsense. It renders this alleged ability moot.

2) If Eren's desired outcome is one he already knows is written and set in stone no matter what he does...….Then there's zero tension.

3) Yeah but with Harry and Hermione that ability actually mattered. It made a difference. This does not. 1) You're just sticking your fingers in your ears and repeating the same mantra at this point. We've already explained to you how this ability matters in making the future the way it is, you just don't want to listen.

2) It's set in stone BECAUSE of what Eren does. If he did something else, the future wouldn't be the way he saw it, but since he doesn't do something else (since he has no MOTIVATION to do anything else), then the future WILL be the way he saw it. The fact that the future he saw is the way it is BECAUSE he was able to see it in advance and act on that information seems to just go over your head.

3) The Prisoner of Azkaban situation is exactly the same, you only think it's different because you haven't understood it. At no point did Buckbeak actually die, he was saved in the 'original timeline' by future Harry + Hermionie but nobody could see that's what happened because they did it covertly. The same when Harry saved his past self from the dementors, there was never some alternate timeline where nobody saved him and the dementors killed Harry. It always happened that way, because it was set in stone that he'd survive and come back to save himself.

I listened. And I don't buy it. Nor do I see its relevance. Again, there's zero point to this ability if it hasn't the ability to change or influence time in any meaningful way, even Eren has no control over whatever it does or whenever he does, quite obviously.

Whatever the explanation, this is an unnecessary development that doesn't add anything to the story. But it is good cause to secondguess Eren on a lot of things. Literally nothing would be different without this revelation. You do see the questions it is raising among a lot of people. Sorry TKGriffiths, I'm done trying to justify this. XP