Board Thread:Anime/@comment-5774380-20190701015956/@comment-1327106-20190701174750

Razzylada wrote: Do you think those panels will be seen in the future chapters, or those panels might be "anime-only" panels, that would illustrate something evocated in the chapters, but only through a discussion and not with a pannel dedicated to it? Any idea about what do they represent? (Of course, answer with spoiler tags, for anime-onlies).

Marco1995mega wrote: I'm glad nothing was left out, especially Floch's speech. I always felt that he was correct about Eren, how he always believed himself to be right. I also thought it to be something of a potshot at the 'never giving up' mindframe; where other shonen ALWAYS praise the trait, Isayama points out that there's a limit where, after passing it, it becomes childish stubborness and in no way a sign of strength or maturity. I always considered AoT to be something of a deconstruction of many popular shonen tropes, even thought it's not labelled or intended as that.

Yeah, Floch's speech to Eren was brilliant. Eren's stubborn insistence that his way is right has been his defining quality in the show, so for someone to come out and cast it in a negative light is shocking, but it completely makes sense when we're coming from Floch's point of view.

I like the conversation where Eren asks Floch what he knows about Armin that makes him a poorer choice than Erwin, and Floch rightly comes back with the fact that he doesn't know Armin because he's not childhood friends with him. It shows why Eren has a bias, while Floch does not, being a third party with no personal attachments to either of the lives that could have been saved.