User blog comment:Neetaku/A Rewrite of Attack on Titan/@comment-28958062-20180212211200/@comment-1037137-20180213004950

I think everyone who is a fan of this series needs to acknowledge something important, and that is that Hajime Isayama hasn't exactly excelled in exploiting his characters to a fuller potential, it's Mikasa, Reiner, Zeke, Levi and Eren who hold by far the greatest weight in the series, with Erwin, Bertolt and Hange as close seconds, and it has rarely been extended beyond them. Neetaku here is talking like Sasha is a special case here, and here you guys brought up that Mina had a relationship with Annie that went nowhere, last I checked Jean, Connie, and most others have not fared all that much better when it comes to their influence outside of the core players. In fact Annie has been out of action for literally years now, and Ymir I'm still not convinced had been used to a point that made her story, or her abrupt death revelation, feel anything close to justified. And Bertolt is really flat next to Reiner, bigtime.

Mr. Isayama missed a truckload of opportunities while writing this anime which gets points for originality, but not so much on execution.