Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160908231942/@comment-5774380-20160914153148

Fire Eater wrote:

And no offense Manuel, but some of us have a right to say that maybe we think the twist being implied here undermines certain aspects of the larger war we've been following all this time.

Fire Eater wrote:

To you the best thing of it, to me a possible copout due to removing the "fight against extinction" element.

It may have undermined the vision that you had of the series, but not the story that it ever was. We always knew that the Titans were just a part of the plot but that there was a larger background story hidden to our eyes; like the secret of the basement being mentioned since the very first chapter; the fact that there were people living outside the walls being discovered since the RBA reveal; Zeke introduced since the Clash of the Titans; and the fact that the story we knew was a lie spread by the government being the central plot of The Uprising arc. The clues were always there and this is not a new plot twist, this is us finally seeing the pieces of the puzzle taking their place and getting a glimpse of the story that Isayama built since the beginning. AoT never really was a "human species fighting extinction" story and we know it since 4 years ago when the Hometown came into play and we learned that there were humans behind everything that was happening; so as I said, this rant makes no sense, and we still have no idea of what exactly is happening out there, so it's way to soon to complain about a background story that we are yet to get revealed.