Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20181008195355/@comment-35822279-20181009210138

Marco1995mega wrote: The "custom chair" was NOT a gag, nor an attempt at comedy, and I don't understand why some people here think it is. It's a damn torture machine. I'm not talking in general terms, either. In this chapter, if you hadn't noticed, Darius glanced at the chair after Mikasa had asked what was going to happen to Eren. Furthermore, he'd stayed silent shortly just before doing so, showing his unwillingness to answer.

In other words, Zackly was planning to use his chair on Eren.

P.S. Good to see that the story is picking up the pace. The sh*t machine is clearly not meant to be a gag in most of it's unfortunate appearances but it became a gag in the community because of how poorly written and laughable the scenario was as while it is connected to Zackley's hatred of nobility that he mentions in Uprising the problem is that this moment for me was not handled subtly but done in an over the top fashion that made it hard for me to ever take the character seriously again and the tone in general in both sh*t machine scenes is that they tonally clash with everything around them. This chapter in particular was trying (not very successfully) to be a subtle chapter about plots, interrogations, and the art of lying and then this scene comes along where Isayama again makes the boring point that Zackley is like some crappy Saturday morning cartoon villain that salivates at the thought of torturing those around him in the most cartoonish way possible and it clashes with the tone he is aiming for by reducing what should be grim and earth shattering moment in every sense of the word (like seriously Floch flat out admitted to plotting to assassinate their head of state and Eren was cool with that) to LOL the sh*t machine killed him like just put the bomb in his desk it does the same thing and keeps the spotlight on the assassination rather than trying to make the silly point that his obsession over cartoonish torture killed him. Also the death felt like a poorly written version of one of my all time favourite character deaths and it was an incredibly unflattering reference as one was masterfully built up while the other was handled with all the subtlety and grace of a bull in a china shop.