Board Thread:Anime/@comment-27321453-20180729185438/@comment-35822279-20180730000429

Overall this was a strange episode for me as I absolutely loved the first 10 minutes (Unlimited Budget Works!) but the second half left me feeling mixed as it still seems that in an attempt to fix the issues with pacing in this arc that they are rushing everything like in 2 episodes we have had close to 10 chapters covered. It feels a bit like throwing the baby out with the bath water as we are moving past the stuff that was largely over expanded in the manga that helped to create the stilted pacing of the manga (Reeves just was not interesting enough to carry multiple chapters in the manga and I wasn't exactly thrilled to learn about the inner workings of the merchant guilds) but rushing past everything deprives the audience of the context behind the actions like why Reeves aids the Survey Corps or why Sannes does what he does and also dilutes the themes/moral ambiguity that the arc is trying to communicate to it's audience so I don't know it just feels like they haven't quite nailed the balance so far.

- On a side note though I am loving that Kenny's second in command is getting more screen time (Traute is her name right?) as I enjoy the dynamic her and Kenny have.