Board Thread:Anime/@comment-27321453-20190603021521/@comment-39684222-20190604010804

Marco1995mega wrote: The thing I disagree with most of the commentators here is the hate for Bert. I mean, I'm not gonna spoil anything, but you all are aware that there's more going on behind the scenes. I understand if you havent't read the manga, but don't you think you should withold judgment for that exact reason. Maybe it's just a personal thing, 'cause I liked Bertolt, especially in Episode 3, where he steeled his resolve. He had little to no choice, the alternatives were in no way favorable either, and, in fact, from his personal perspective, were probably worse. I understand he was abating and aiding in genocide, but if we are to follow a similar logic, Erwin deserved to die too for sacrificing civilians of HIS OWN nation during the Stohess Operation, willingly. Like Bert, he used the excuse of 'I had no choice'.

However, despite this, when he talked with Armin, Bert said that he decided that the Wallians were to die. Like Erwin, he decided to take responsibility and go through with his actions, even if they were terrible, despite the fact that his options were less than limited. When I first read that in the manga, I felt my respect for this character soar. Whether he deserved his fate or not is questionable, not to mention subjective, but I really think he was an awesome character with great character development in the short screen time he had. I have an issue with the cut and dry hatred too, I mean I can't disagree entirely because of how cathartic it is to watch a serial killer die. But yeah we all saw Reiner, Annie, and Bert staring at Marco a few episodes ago in the flashback of him getting eaten. It was like they had just blacked out for a few minutes. Reiner was like ...."wait....why is Marco getting eaten...?" soooo that implies they're not in control all the time and we aren't sure how aware they are of their actions. I think the only way to prevent yourself from continuing to "unintentionally" commit genocide would be to kill yourself once you start to catch on to what you've been doing and none of them did that so....it might be way worse than we think. Thanks for not spoiling, I'm so tempted to read on though!