Board Thread:Anime/@comment-27321453-20190603021521/@comment-1327106-20190608205834

It was odd for Hange to want to kill Reiner so badly given she's always been wanting to know more about Titans, and has even gotten other people in trouble along the way (like in the Ilse OVA, where Oruo nearly gets killed because she doesn't want him to kill the talking Titan). She was probably upset because she just lost Moblit and the rest of her squad, and that probably affected her judgement, but when Jean talks to her, she sees how she's reacting and pulls back.

It's not that Bertholdt suddenly knows what he's doing and why so much as he's accepted it. In S2 he tells his former friends that he doesn't want to do any of this, and in S3 his stance hasn't changed, but the difference is that he's come to the terms with the fact that he can't change anything. He has to do what he has to do.

I think people make out Reiner's split personality thing as more than it is. What he has is a coping problem. Reiner, like Bertholdt, doesn't like what he's doing (because he became friends with everyone in the 104th). But he's got a job to do and he has to do it.

Bertholdt breaks down and cries over the stress of his deception. Reiner copes by convincing himself that he's not really an outside invader killing people he cares about, but just another soldier. It's an extremely high level of denial so Reiner could function in his day-to-day life as a member of the 104th. Reiner doesn't want to think of himself as a bad person, and the soldier persona lets him do that while the warrior persona gets the job done.