User blog comment:NickFusi0n/A Theory on The Coordinate and The Wall Titans/@comment-93.209.16.74-20140525064024

Nick, it's a very good theory and very logical, but it seems to be based on a wrong assumption.

You believe that the outsiders (Reiner, Berthold, Annie) are the antagonists? I don't believe it. The central government of the walled area seems to be the evil force. In the end, you regard them as how they were introduced - benevolent dictators. It's not true. It's a dictatorship that rules the people with fear (of the outside world especially "thanks" to the Titans) and with force, their military police units which mercilessly kill people who could be a threat to the ruling elite.

I miss how the ape and the memory manipulation fit in the scenario you propose. However the idea that the Coordinate is used to "activate" the wall Titans seems right, and I congratulate you for pointing that out. However I suggest that the central government wants control of the Coordinate in order to blackmail the people trapped in the walls - if you want to kill us, we destroy the walls and you die too.

The task of the outside Titan shifters was - maybe - to take the Coordinate away from the central government to end their control of humanity, even when it means killing a lot of people. There are humans outside of the walls. Not only Reiner/Berthold/Annie's people but Ymir's people too. They belong to different groups. How this world really looks like is still a mystery. At the moment I regard Reiner's group as rebels against an evil regime which enslaved a part (!) of humanity within the walls - just like East Germany built a wall to keep people in control (it was labeled as an anti-fascist DEFENSE wall by their propaganda), and North Korea is doing the same.

It's also possible that the ape can shift Titans back into humans, and eating him gives you that power. That way, humanity would not die even when the walled area represents 90 per cent and more of humanity. Reiner and Berthold could shift all Titans back into humans once they defeat the ape. They were very happy to see him, remember?

So thumbs up to you, but don't vilify Reiner and Berthold too much. It's still ambiguous at the moment.