-ANIMEXHUNTER said:Hey!
I finished the uprising arc this morning. WIT did a great job, save for a few changes from the manga. My official take is that the missing content in question was mostly added character development for Eren and Historia individually not just specifically their relationship.
And for sure all this doesn’t matter. I’m hanging in there just for the ending too. I can’t front this series is sometimes too depressing for me. It’s amazing and a masterpiece and has a secured spot in my favorites but in like every possible way it is just so painfully sad. I've wanted to put it as my first favorite but just can’t bc of that, lol.
Well anyways, thanks for everything! (:
Hm, okay. Do you think Anime did good enough of a job with their relationship, that if they were to end up with each other, it would make sense?. Like from writing perspective, not shipping, do they have enough chemistry?
And i am gonna have to make a big post her to explain why in my opinion the changes made were really important
While i do agree with
the missing content in question was mostly added character development for Eren and Historia individually not just specifically their relationship
I, in addition to that also think that their individual development is complementary, hence it has consequences for their relationship. Take Historia, what defines her character since her arc with Ymir is selfishness(more as a philosophy in life, rather than she herself being selfish person), at least it does in the manga, she's the girl who stood up at the top of a crumbling tower and cheered Ymir tearing it down, yelling to her that she should fight for herself, even if meant that her other friends, and her included might die. And in the cave, the moment she made her decision she didn't fully rationalize everything yet, she was driven by emotion, not reason, reason came after, when she started thinking for excuses not to do it. When she saved Eren, she still thought at the time that eating him would be the correct decision morally, to protect humanity, she saved Eren for her own sake, it was a decision made out of her selfishness, like she said to Rod - "I won't let you kill me". to her making the decision her father wanted meant abandoning herself. Ymir told her to live a life she herself would be proud of, and to her then and there, when it mattered, when she had the choice, it meant rejecting the path that is best for humanity, and embracing the path where her heart lies. The decision she made was purely out of selfishness yes, but it is inseparably connected to saving Eren, which is why i believe that having the panel of her staring at him in secret is essential to show BEFORE the cave, you needed to show her affection towards him, no matter if it's romantic or he's just a precious friend. She's the same girl who previously said she doesn't give a shit what happens to Armin, while the same Armin was acting as her double. She is someone that is prepared to make decisions like that. I really don't think if it was someone else in Eren's stead she would make the same decision, and the manga did show that she was decisive, she was ready to do it, she even nearly did it without Rod's help
Naturally the reason why it even reached this point is Eren, who asked her to finish him and his story, she wouldn't do it before that. Of course Eren's struggle here mirror's Historia's, for both of them it's about their fathers, for both of them it's about fighting or giving up.
Eren, who from the very first chapter/episode of this series was defined by his relentless spirit, passion and the will to fight, the inspiration for all of them joining survey corps - broke down right in front of her, for one and only time during entire series he.. gave up, begging her to eat him, and she, after 2 seasons of inner struggle between living and fighting for herself or just accepting her role that is given to her by others and secretly wishing to die, thrust that syringe into her arm. That for her, was the selfless act, that in her mind was the right thing to do. Hence the flashback she had of Ymir when she said "do you want to do a good deed?". She rejected it, and then said that humanity can get wiped out, fuck them, she's gonna do what's right for her.
And you know what's the problem after all that. Did this really happen in the anime?, can any of the anime onlies answer, was this really your interpretation of what happened in the anime?
Cuz my interpretation of anime was that Christa never became Historia, she just did the right thing, as always, she saved her friend, the end. She's the same kind and selfless girl she always was. At the end she was indecisive, and didn't sacrifice her friend, because she's a good girl. And when she said humanity should get wiped out, she really just got carried away, cmon, none of that is serious of course.. right?
Well if you think that, you think wrong, she's not a good girl, not even close, she's the worst girl in the world. |