Board Thread:Anime/@comment-5774380-20180427103154/@comment-34951744-20180507220341

Fire Eater wrote: The answer to that is very simple, DEVELOP these characters, give them ample screetime, don't introduce 90% of those actually given a name just to die within one or two episodes/chapters, whatever, which is the treatment he gives 99% of them, main or redshirt, and do more than just be a freaking death dealer. The worldbuilding didn't even become serious until so much later in the story, and I'm not referring to the anime, which is still stuck in the point in the story where all's a fog. So as such, merely a death dealer. A role he too eagerly pursues on both sides of the fence. Do we not watch these guys because we want them to prevail or are we all apathetic whenever anybody bites the dust? Are we apathetic when these guys go before they really flesh out? Because I'm tell you this, if that is so, I am not, nothing grates me more than when a character goes to waste or isn't justified in their time hanging around by the time it's done, or is just used as a plot device. I spoke to a friend about "plot device characters", they brought up the issue first and they made a lot of sense. Isayama is dealing a lot in this. You don't win points for that. that's not how it works.