Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20190908104148/@comment-1327106-20190920053427

SunWarriorAsahi wrote: Okay I'm done trying to make sense of any of this, I'm just gonna assume Yams was drunk writing this. XP

It seems like this largely boils down to the fixed timeline concept. You don't like or understand how it works, therefore the story is not enjoyable for you. (And it's fine that you don't.)

But for people who do follow this sort of thing, the storytelling is fine, and for us it's pretty clear that Isayama knows the rules of this type of time travel so it's okay. I actually became a big fan of fixed timeline time travel back in high school when I read the Dragonriders of Pern series and the protagonists pulled some crazy stuff because they had circumstantial knowledge that they had gone back in time and had succeeding in doing something, therefore they went back in time and did it, creating their present day circumstances (and subsequently saving the day).

It's not much different from what Eren's doing. This sort of time travel has been around in fiction for decades. It's just not as popular because people like being able to change the past, and the very nature of fixed time travel is that it won't. Any perceived interference just leads to the same future.