Board Thread:Manga/@comment-34196931-20190708230504/@comment-35822279-20190709022951

Tdfern14 wrote: @Penguinluver1431

You just said that Colt was one of the "few non-Eldian" you didn't felt bad about, except Colt was a Eldian?

@Freeman1378

I do agree that ending was predictable or just bad storytelling. Although I hope maybe instead of a Spider Head or LMD (although I don't know what that means), however as subversive as it would be for even manga,  I don't want another Sasha outrage controversy on the Internet [shrugs]. I just hope it's just memory alternation since that has been established to be a thing. The spider head was a joke just because the first thing I thought of when Eren got his head blasted was The Thing one of my favourite movies and its memorable defibrillator scene (which has a decapitated head running amok) for some reason. A LMD is a life model decoy in Marvel comics which some people think the WHT is capable of (far fetched but who knows). The situation is incredibly silly with anything seeming possible due to series prior weird nerve transfers (that moment is still very silly when it was played as straight as it was) and other goofy moments especially from recent chapters and thus I used these to highlight the farcical nature of these moments interspersed with nerve transfers, regeneration (Reiner can regenerate from only his head according to Gabi), or memory manipulation which are the likely candidates. On a more serious note memory manipulation is inherently more interesting than nerve transfers or regeneration because of the moral quagmire it represents (literally taking away someones free will like a man named Fritz) and being a new low for Eren (desperate times call for desperate measures). At the same time this is do or die time for this manga and I would prefer Isayama swing for the fences rather than tease it and constantly back off. Like the possibilities of Eren dying are exciting Zeke could abandon his empathetic death strategy and decide to nuke the world, Historia's baby could inherit 3 titans, Marley could gain a signifigant advantage and push Eldia to the brink. It doesn't have a high chance of happening (no anime or manga I've read has killed off a true main character outside of grand sacrifice at the very end + Eren has miles of development left) but the chaos it would represent would be truly exciting for the endgame. Just like Westworld has a bizarre affection for mystery boxes and obstructiveness, Isayama loves resurrections and fakeouts far too much with these popping up too frequently when this works a minimum of once (if done right) in most works and just like Westworld's creator Jonathan Nolan he is a good writer who shouldn't let his worst impulses take over as he has proven to be better than that with the series big twist being excellent in every way for example. So hopefully Yams cools it in the future chapters as this principle is at its worst since RTS.