Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180708204808/@comment-1037137-20180711030305

Freeman1378 wrote: Fire Eater wrote: Is there any discernible reason why anything about the Marley recon team, Hizuru, Runaway Eren or the "Historia breeds new Titans" plan needed to be shown as flashbacks after Liberio? I think that Isayama either had little faith in his audience to understand what was going on (a better writer would use character interactions to highlight important details or trust the reader to put it together through the pieces shown to them) or he feel into the trap of trying to be too clever by obstructing what was going on in Paradis at the time to try and surprise us later on with a twist but the problem with that is that Isayama is an exceptionally blunt writer who showed his hand too obviously (Gabi constantly running around saying she was going to shoot someone, Zeke's godawful dialogue in the Marley arc, or Kiyomi being sketchy in her interactions with Willy). I cannot say I'm at all impressed by whatever stunt that was. Sounds like little more than a drive for shock value. Again.