Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20190908104148/@comment-40015750-20190920054151

RuneLai wrote: SunWarriorAsahi wrote: Okay I'm done trying to make sense of any of this, I'm just gonna assume Yams was drunk writing this. XP

It seems like this largely boils down to the fixed timeline concept. You don't like or understand how it works, therefore the story is not enjoyable for you. (And it's fine that you don't, but it doesn't mean Isayama was drunk.)

But for people who do follow this sort of thing, the storytelling is fine, and for us it's pretty clear that Isayama knows the rules of this type of time travel so it's okay. I actually became a big fan of fixed timeline time travel back in high school when I read the Dragonriders of Pern series and the protagonists pulled some crazy stuff because they had circumstantial knowledge that they had gone back in time and had succeeding in doing something, therefore they went back in time and did it, creating their present day circumstances (and subsequently saving the day).

It's not much different from what Eren's doing. This sort of time travel has been around in fiction for decades. It's just not as popular because people like being able to change the past, and the very nature of fixed time travel is that it won't. Any perceived interference just leads to the same future.

Yeah. it's a chapter that's pretty shit I thought. XP

LOL, well I think you're lending too much thinking to this saga and I think Isayama is demanding a little too much of it from us. I always found it to be a little heavyhanded at times, but I always had a good laugh at just how absurdly off course the story got at times. Because it is insane some of the turns that have been taken that I just didn't think were really important. This though.....I think I said get us back to the war. Get us back to the war.

Well it's a theory that doesn't service this story. Nothing would change if we didn't have this revelation. So how about you allow some of us to say it's ridiculous and not ask any further question of it, RuneLai? I know this fandom likes to put Yamsicle on a pedestal here but come on. I think it's fair to say he lays it on pretty thick at times when it's really not appropriate. As I said I'm a pretty casual viewer so I have no problem laughing at this guy or even at the larger fandom when they get all defensive over stuff like this. Like long hair Eren, you know how sappy Tumblr gets? XD