Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20191008222936/@comment-25933225-20191014091547

Neetaku wrote: Razzylada wrote: Neetaku wrote: I don't even disagree that this final arc is the worst in the series, but your reasons for thinking so don't seem to be very clear to me. I think this time loop element that Isayama has introduced is completely unnecessary too, but it does not break the story in the way you seem to be implying. The only huge issue with the Attack Titan's ability to see the future is that it seems like a staggeringly redundant ability to have since the future cannot be changed, and it seems like the ability only ever works when the Attack's user is in contact with a member of the royal family. That, and there was absolutely no foreshadowing of the Attacker having such an ability, so this ability well and truly feels like something Isayama made up on the spot. It does not really hurt the series in any other way. The timeloop only exists as a plot twist to surprise readers (I agree that it is completely unneeded and convoluted plot twist), and it really does not have any bearing on the plot besides that. Well the first foreshadowing of this ability is when Kruger mentionned Mikasa and Armin, because that was exactly this ability of the Attack Titan that has been used there. But yes, I agree, maybe a bit more foreshadowing of this ability would have been good.

I guess that chapter 121 stuff didn't ad that much to the story, but for my part, I've always considered the way Grisha killed the Reiss family a bit weird to me, so this chapter made it clearer to me. I didn't bother me because that was not time travel at all (just caused by the fact that Grisha inherits of Eren's future memories when he is checking Grisha's memories, which creates this impression of time travel), even if it can be analysed the same way. Tho, we've been prepared for stuff like that since chapter 1 with Eren dreaming of a future Mikasa, and even more in the anime. Ah, you're right, there was the Kruger scene. But I don't think that alone is enough. What would have been really cool (and I think Isayama might have done this if he had come with the Attack Titan's ability sooner) is if there are certain points in the series where Eren is shown reacting to things before they happen during battle or something. Like maybe during the fights with Annie in the Female Titan arc and his fights with Reiner in Clash and RTS there are certain points in the fight where he predicts their attacks before they make them (to his and their surprise). Well I've always considered the memory stuff a bit too convenient for the storytelling: like, why didn't Eren get any memories of his father dealing with Marley and all that stuff BEFORE learning of it? Yes, maybe he needed to be aware of all of that before to eventually «trigger» these memories, but still. Why not a single glimpse of these before that? Just a few glimpses would have been good, not too much in order not to reveal anything, but also enough to understand these memories were not like «mmmmh let's wait until he learns everything before coming to his mind».