Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180906211831/@comment-8458738-20180910054941

Penguinluver1431 wrote: Tdfern14 wrote: Penguinluver1431 wrote: Tdfern14 wrote: Penguinluver1431 I see no positive development for her even after this chapter, no matter how hard Isayama tries.

Overall, though, much better chapter than most of the Marley arc itself, looks like we're building up for quite the explosive final conflict. Do you think Isayama is a terrible writer? I think he's done much better in the past than what we've been getting this arc. I've made no secret how much I loathe the Marley arc, it was the worst one yet; poorly written and a cheap attempt at Isayama trying to force us to empathize with what is essentially AoT's Nazi Germany. If he wanted us to empathize with the villains, he would have planted those seeds much earlier in the series. Doing it at this point, after showing the crimes Marley has committed against Paridis, it fruitless.

Barring the Warriors from before the time-skip (Reiner, Annie, etc.) the only one I like is Falco. Gabi I despise and want to suffer as gruesomely as possible. The others I am meh about. I'm probably one of the only ones who actually enjoyed watching Marleyans die, so needless to say, I'm a fan of Floch and would like to see Paradis resume its rightful place as the heroes of the story.

But yes, long story short, I think Isayama is slipping as far as his writing nice, but thats mostly the case with a lot of fiction that makes it as far as it has. Well Marely could also be perceived as Imperial Japan as they also committed war crimes (Nanking?), and while Nazis are bad, not all Nazis were downright evil as some stood up against the regime.

Anyway, while no writer is absolutely perfect, and you are bound to make some bumps on the road, but don't you think it's a bit early to start criticizing this series as a whole and pointing out the flaws of the writing and so fourth, I mean we are still early or rather in the midpoint of this current story arc (whatever the hell the name if this story arc is, I mean for all we know this could still be the extension of the Marely Arc?) which is still in progress with a huge pay off or climax with all the foreshadowing. I agree no writer is perfect and that certain plot points take time to iron out consisely, but there are also times when the audience has waited long enough. We went nearly ten whole chapters without the main crew, instead being shown a bunch of new kids from Marley we had/have no connection to. There was a whole lot more Isayama could have done with that space (roughly two and a half volumes worth of content) to better develop the story that did not involve forcing new characters this late into the story that, as far as I can tell, have nowhere near the relevance of the SC. To me, the infighting between the SC corps that support or are against Eren's actions is more interesting than the side adventures with Gabi and Falco. Okay fair enough. Thats your gripe or issue its relevancy? I do believe in this case, with these circumstances with the new characters from Marley, will come in full circle. Its just a matter of how it will be executed in the end, its too early to tell. I mean if this does end up becoming useless filler with nothing connected to the whole and becomes rushed then I'll eat my words and say that was bad writing. However I am willing to give things a chance and by the end of how this story will become overall then I may see the point of what was right & what was wrong with AoT.