Most underrated AOT part/arc in your opinion?

DarkFirefly72 said:
For me it has to be no doubt S3 Part 1 (Royal Government Arc). Not only is it underrated but I've heard people call it boring and/or the "only bad" part of the whole show. It has very probably the best action sequences in the entire show, one of the most interesting antagonists (Kenny) who has an amazing and plot relevant backstory and a really good arc in the time he is on screen. It also has elite character development for Historia. I think that a reason it is sometimes seen as inferior is because it is really different from all the other arcs of the story, like it feel somewhat self contained, but I still wouldn't know why that would be such a big problem.

voltwaffle said:
Probably in the ending when Armin asks Eren why he did everything he did and Eren just says 'idk'. The whole ending is true peak comedy.

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Alex2Face said:

Eren didn't mean "I don't know why" literally...he states why at the very start of their conversation. It's not that he didn't know why he started it but that he doesn't know why he was driven to such great lengths to attain freedom, to the point he even got his friends involved. That's why the Grisha scene comes right after.

voltwaffle said:

He didn't know why he wanted freedom?

Man, this is some high grade cope. Gonna need my hazmat suit for this.

DarkFirefly72 said:
@voltwaffle Eren throughout the show tried to justify his actions in several ways, but ultimately the rumbling is a selfish and deeply personal choice. Eren is not doing this because he necessarly hates the rest of the world or because he wants to protect Paradis, he mostly wants to keep his friends safe and he wants to be "free". At the end of the journey he gets to a point where he can't lie to himself (or to others) anymore and he is left emotionally destroyed with the sheer guilt of the things he did, and because he knew why he wanted to make them (being free, friends, etc.), but not knowing why he is the way he is. Eren had an idea of how the world was going to look and when the world was the opposite of what he envisioned he basically tried to use the Rumbling has a way to impose his freedom and to tell the world that he could change it to whatever he wanted, at least somewhat subconsciously. It's not that Eren didn't know why he did what he did, is that he doesn't know why he is like this and how a person could justify doing such a thing and he hates that.