Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20181206222153/@comment-4383890-20190102051711

Mr. Blouse is in the right: forgiveness is the only way to put a hard stop to the cycle of violence the revenge leads to. The problem with that though is that forgiveness is idealistic and not realistic. Would it be nice if everyone could just hold hands, sing some campfire songs, and everything would be all hunky dory? In a perfect world maybe, but the world, as we all know, is much more complicated than that. And with Marley and the rest of the world ready to strike Paradis down, forgiveness and mercy is not something the Walldians can afford if they expect to survive.

That's why I'm expecting (and hoping) that the rumbling happens. Not just because the outside world deserves it, but because it goes back to the series' original theme of survival, and if the Walldians want to survive, they have to be realistic and not idealistic (in other words, Hange and Armin's idealistic plan to talk things out with their enemies is gonna get them all killed). The rumbling is the one and only way the cycle truly ends. I'm inclined to visualize Eren giving the Jack Nicholson speech from A Few Good Men, particularly the part about "You WANT me on that wall! You NEED me on that wall!", because as Floch so frequently says, he's the devil Eldia needs.