Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20191008222936/@comment-37493549-20191014090103

Neetaku wrote: The only huge issue with the Attack Titan's ability to see the future is that it seems like a staggeringly redundant ability to have since the future cannot be changed, and it seems like the ability only ever works when the Attack's user is in contact with a member of the royal family. This has been foreshadowed since the first chapter, when we hear someone speaking to someone 2000 years in the future.

Also, the future not being able to be changed doesn't make the ability redundant. The future is only the way it is BECAUSE it was forseen, the most obvious example of this is Grisha murdering the Reiss family. If the Attack Titan didn't have this ability, Eren couldn't have given him the motivation to attack the Reiss family and obviously things would be different then. The foresight CAUSES the future to be the way it is, it's not a case of viewing some film that nobody had any influence in creating. The combined influence of everyone in the world is what made that future the way it is.

If you think this ability is redundant, then by extension you must believe that every single ability in the series is redundant since none of them can change the future. The point is they all CONTRIBUTE to making the future the way it is.

Also he doesn't have to be in contact with a royal to activate this ability, neither Grisha nor Krueger touched a royal when they were experiencing the future.