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. We are moving past the stuff that dragged down the pacing in the manga (Reeves was just 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 by rushing past everything the audience has been deprived of the context behind the actions like why Reeves aids the Survey Corps or why Sannes does what he does and it 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 as it like they took cold soggy soup and returned it piping hot with lots of the meat gone.

- 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.