User blog:Fire Eater/So what's the REAL reason we've been following this story?

Yeah. I'm just going to ask because me I no longer know why I did myself. This glorification of death and destruction is becoming more and more confusing to follow and what some of us have had to suffer to get answers is making it a chore to do. My morbid curiosity keeps me from making a clean divorce here. So I have to ask, what is the reason we follow this story?

As I've said before, I watch these guys to PREVAIL, NOT DIE. I'm not interested in seeing the minds behind it flaunt how "crafty" they think they are, I've seen that performance with other franchises and it only did more harm than good to those as well. Too many brilliant characters, major and minor have been offed criminally early and at very little meaning whatsoever to a plot that is simply too ambitious for its own good. But at least with that ambition it should be focusing on that and not on how it can pull the next bit of shock factor every nineteen lines of dialogue.

And at this stage, we've entered an entirely different manga post-Shiganshina. Too much so. It's getting way too heavyhanded.

What kind of payoff is anyone really expecting from this this far in? And is watching these guys die a genuine part of the appeal, like do we ENJOY these deaths of the week? Because I've seen people praise the manga for making it like a drinking game, I say bollocks to that. Titan ain't a unique specimen when it comes to that, it's just unique in how much it loves to abuse it.

What is the appeal here, what is the payoff we're hoping to get? I ask as a former fan.