Board Thread:Anime/@comment-27321453-20180826183015/@comment-8458738-20180827152417

RuneLai wrote: In a lower level this episode was good, but if you're really know the manga you can see the cracks in their plotting where things don't make sense anymore. For instance, Historia's line about being wrong about her father.

In the anime she and Eren are kidnapped before the Scouts learn about Rod Reiss being the true king of the Walls, master of shadows, and all of that. They have no reason to believe he had anything to do with Nick's murder (which was not done by the Anti-Personnel Control Squad) or freezing Scout activity unless he told them.

It gets the major beats of the manga (obviously the really, really important you have to know this for future arcs plot material), but can't stick the landing when it comes to the smaller details since they rearranged things.

This is likely because they have multiple scriptwriters working simultaneously and while they're both using the manga for reference it might not have been possible to reference each other's scripts to that level of detail, so while the person writing Historia's line knew it existed in the manga, they didn't write the earlier episodes where Eren and Historia would have gotten the information they needed in order to have a negative opinion of Rod in the first place. And the script was helped by Hajime Isayama who had a hand in it as he was disappointed with the Uprising Arc in his manga.