User:Nikolai the Second

Gripes with Attack on Titan
In preparation for Season 3, I am rewatching the first two seasons. While, it can still bring me to tears, I have noticed a few flaws that I didn't notice the first time around. Spoilers for seasons 1 and 2 of the show. I still have many questions like why are the enemy titan shifters helping out Eren in boot camp and why are they even in the military? Why doesn't the armored titan break though the inner gate at Trost?
 * 1) The dialogue scenes are flat and unentertaining. I found myself wanting to listen to the dialogue scenes while playing minesweeper like it was a podcast. The visuals just aren't entertaining. This is especially referring to the boot camp episodes.
 * 2) The other slow part is oddly enough, the bulk of the initial Trost battle. After Eren dies at the end of episode 5, episode 6, 7, and 8 are so depressing that it is hard to stay invested in the characters.
 * 3) I find it very unlikely that Eren would be killing people at such a young age in the Mikasa flashback. It temporarily broke my suspension of disbelief.

Looking back, the camera sticks those 3 enemy titan shifters together in scenes and two of them appear to be friends. But spies would never associate with each other in public because they know that if one of them is revealed to be a spy then that throws their entire friend's circle into suspicion. Like "What did they know that they didn't tell us?"

Overall, I love this show to death. But I have to jot down these flaws so that I can forget them and they don't bug me and I can just enjoy the show.