User blog comment:DementedP/Isayama's take on Episode 23/@comment-179280-20130915222008/@comment-10733658-20130916080655

@DementedP, I love your assessment of things.

I had some conflicted feelings concerning the scene. I still do, as I feel the animators didn't QUITE manage to pull things off. It does seem a little too "sexy", but I see where they were going with it and I genuinely love that. The laughter I loved, as my immediate response was to recoil in shock.....and then catch the desperate, painful edge to it.

I also both enjoy and hate that Isayama seems to want us to feel for the Titan trio so much. His statement that Annie is not evil (a "normal girl"), and wanting to convey her emotions at having been found out really match with the later behavior of her conspirators. All three of them have done monsterous things, but ultimately are not themselves evil people.

I genuinely hope this means all three may survive to return later on, and play an unexpected role in things.