Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180708204808/@comment-4383890-20180724030653

ArticunaDragon101 wrote: When I choose to write a story, I usually kill off characters in a way that is relevant to the plot. Our author is not doing this. His way of killing people off is clearly seen as just to get rid of the useless side meat, and I agree with a lot of the comments above. Some of us are here because of morbid curiosity, and some are too invested to let go, but I don't think we are here for the "ever thickening" plot or the "awesome" characters. The quality has become worse over time, ever since we established titans as just another factor in politics. I understand the authors intent, to blue the line between good and evil, but this isn't the right way to do it. My only impression now is just "come on." Agreed. Actually saw a post on Tumblr defending the new direction of the series by first posting Isayama "trying to write a complex and intelligent story" and says the fandom is all "omg he is so sick why cant it just be giant naked n****** killing humanity" (his words, not mine). But here are the big problems with that;

A) Politics and war have constantly been done in every form of storytelling, it's gotten to a point where that sort of thing is no longer unique. Humans vs. creepy naked giants was not only unique but actually intersting.

B) At least when people died in the original humans vs titans storyline, any and all deaths were fair game. Now they're just cheap shock value tactics, the one big example being when one of the series most beloved characters (Sasha) is killed not by a Titan, but by a gunshot wound from a widely hated supporting character (Gabi). Too much GoT crap going on as of the Marley arc, hopefully Isayama will move on from that and shift the story back to its origins.