Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20191008222936/@comment-25933225-20191014050203

Neetaku wrote: I don't even disagree that this final arc is the worst in the series, but your reasons for thinking so don't seem to be very clear to me. I think this time loop element that Isayama has introduced is completely unnecessary too, but it does not break the story in the way you seem to be implying. 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. That, and there was absolutely no foreshadowing of the Attacker having such an ability, so this ability well and truly feels like something Isayama made up on the spot. It does not really hurt the series in any other way. The timeloop only exists as a plot twist to surprise readers (I agree that it is completely unneeded and convoluted plot twist), and it really does not have any bearing on the plot besides that. Well the first foreshadowing of this ability is when Kruger mentionned Mikasa and Armin, because that was exactly this ability of the Attack Titan that has been used there. But yes, I agree, maybe a bit more foreshadowing of this ability would have been good.

I guess that chapter 121 stuff didn't ad that much to the story, but for my part, I've always considered the way Grisha killed the Reiss family a bit weird to me, so this chapter made it clearer to me. I didn't bother me because that was not time travel at all (just caused by the fact that Grisha inherits of Eren's future memories when he is checking Grisha's memories, which creates this impression of time travel), even if it can be analysed the same way. Tho, we've been prepared for stuff like that since chapter 1 with Eren dreaming of a future Mikasa, and even more in the anime.