Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20200408113657/@comment-1327106-20200409063205

General chapter impressions:

Pros:


 * Seeing Samuel and Daz again. Granted, killing them off would have meant more if they'd actually be developed as characters, but they had, then the fanbase would have rioted.  Imagine if it had been Connie killing Sasha.  People would have exploded.  But killing two familiar faces who readers have minimal attachment too, it makes us feel sorry for Connie rather than for them.


 * Callback to the Warriors' choices. Good stuff.  Connie and Armin are now on the side of moral questioning that Bertolt and Reiner had gone through.  And the answer to Annie's speculation on whether they would have broken the Walls that day is, yes, they likely would have.


 * Yelena's always a heel, but her observation about humanity's penchange violence was terribly appropriate.


 * Connie shooting Samuel and Daz. Putting this separately because this is one of those moments where you know there's no going back. I haven't liked Connie much as a character, but this moment was good.  This was hard, and he did it.  As mentioned above, killing Daz to save Armin was easily justified, but killing Samuel is because 'it had to be done for the job.' As everyone discussed outside, they have to kill all the Yeagerists at once to be sure of securing the ship, and they can't take chances that Samuel will do something.

Cons:


 * Floch's megaphone voice being able to let everyone knows that Mikasa, Armin, and Connie are traitors. I get that it's dramatic, but I doubt he really should have been able to shout loud enough, and coherently enough, that everyone would know exactly what's going on.


 * Hange seeing from the steam trail that the Titans have reached Marley. We're talking about an ocean voyage here, one long enough that Marley can lose ships and wonder what happened to them.  How can she look at the steam and be like "Well, they made it to the continent!"