Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20190308225839/@comment-38810880-20190314201517

This was a substantive chapter but some of the revelations we've been getting recently have been disappointing and don't make too much sense to me.

-A few chapters back we had the very disappointing Levi vs. Beast Titan rematch. That scene definitely made Zeke's titan form much less of a threat.

-Then, Levi's solution to keep Zeke captive is to have him pinned to a thunder spear that Zeke himself can detonate. With Levi right next to him. They already know titan shifters can regenerate their bodies. Reiner had has his head cut off and still regenerated! That seems like a very stupid plan.

-Zeke has 11/10 intelligence and his master plan is...to end the Eldian race by sterilizing them. Weren't the titan shifters as military weapons becoming obsolete? Wasn't Marley thinking of getting rid of their Marley population for good? Zeke, Porco, Reiner and Piek were all worried about that. And even if he does euthanize them, the remaining Eldians are not going to live out their remaining lives in peace. All the militaries of the world are united against Eldia now and are coming for them. What, Zeke is just gonna send message to all the nations and be like, "yeah, it's cool. I sterilized the entire Eldian race so you can turn back now!"

-We all were dying to know what Zeke and Eren talked about when they were both in Marley. We finally get it and it's pretty much:

ZEKE: Eren, I want to kill off the Eldian race. What do you think?

EREN: My dad killed innocent women and children, but he did it so that we could live.

ZEKE: So that was a good thing?

EREN: No. It would be better if we'd never been born. I'm in.

Zeke's supposed to be this mastermind, and very ruthless as well. How can he be so naive? I'm sure the author will come up with an explanation down the road, but in the mean time it comes across as bad writing.

-The plot armor for Zeke and Levi is getting ridiculous. When the manga/anime started you felt like anyone could die. Of course, Eren lived, but fine, he's the main character. But the resurrections for Reiner, Zeke, Armin, and now Levi make the manga feel more generic and predictable. Any threat these characaters face won't feel real.

-Floch is acting like a maniacle villain, with the evil grins and all that. The idea of the Yeagerists pulling off a coup d'etat is a good one. But making their leader into a stereotypical villain comes across as silly.