Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180608184740/@comment-7673575-20180622171556

Fire Eater wrote: Look, all those "plot armor" complaints, why do they even stand? We watch these guys to prevail, not to die, don't we? Isn't that what we hope for? Because frankly, if we had time to complain about what seemed like "ridiculous plot armor", something's wrong here. Losing one of the only lighthearted elements in this series and a character who didn't reach her full potential is an unacceptable maneuver, Isayama will not be treated as an exception here, sorry. This is not going to service the story in any way that couldn't have been satisfied by other means, and it firmly cements Gabi as not only nigh-irredeemable as far as her previous acts go, but also squarely places Eren in the villainous circle. There's no peace with either the Titans or the Yeagers being left alive. There's a shadow here cast by 105 and whether it's a month and a half, a year, five years, whenever this ends, it's a shadow. It will remain. And I very much doubt for the better, this thing needed Sasha. Sickening that this was the time he chose to go that far.

Four years following this. I'm taking the insult very personally. While I do believe that Fire Eater here took this just a tad too personally, I agree with all that he said. All things considered, moves that Isayama decided to make in these last few chapters are really, really stupid: from making Gabi (who I actually sorta liked) into a nigh-irredemable character, Eren turning to the dark side of the Force, Warhammer Titan (who was hyped to over heaven) being killed just like that, Paradisians being turned into bloodthirsty raiders, to the most severe of all, killing Sasha.

Literally, any character could've died in her place. Frankly, I think that Gabi shooting Levi (even if non-lethaly) would've made a much greater point. Shoot him in the spine, take away his legs and cripple the Paradisians to horrifying extent. Would've still carried same - if not greater - weight, and it would still keep Gabi in the boundaries of likeable characters.

This way, Isayama ruined at least 3 characters beyond repair: Gabi and Eren (by making them into murderers), and Sasha (by removing her from the picture forever).