Shingeki no Kyojin Episode 10 Discussion

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misumimi said:
So, people sometimes complain how the characters are rather plain and so on (expect for the potato girl, of course, cause everyone loves her) but when we get to see some character development, they're all like: " sooo boring, more action plz!!"

Haters are not a single unified entity. Often the people who want action and the people who want character development are different people, and you can't please them all. The real problem is that so much of this episode was neither action nor development. It was just drawn out shit.

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Jun 9, 2013 4:24 AM

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Aside from Armin and Pixis, Irwin will be giving a speech later on as well.

Just remember what Hannes said about the main trio - skills, willpower and brains. The show has three different types of MCs with Jean making a fourth type.

Strategy and tactical planning makes up a third of the plot progression in the story. This is why I was extra-annoyed by all the "brainless action" accusations.

Just three more weeks and the anime-only fans can finally see that willpower and skill cannot go anywhere without brains. Actually, it should be obvious already, but the Trost conclusion will present it way more dramatically.

Jun 9, 2013 4:29 AM

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What kind of smoke takes that long to clear, in the open fucking air? And furthermore, why couldn't they just shoot in the smoke? It seemed to make an explosion earlier, and there's a lot of cannons against a couple cornered people.

Eren's so badass he can talk without his lips moving. Ventriloquist swag. And he switches that shit on mid sentence, like a boss.

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3nvy said:
What kind of smoke takes that long to clear, in the open fucking air? And furthermore, why couldn't they just shoot in the smoke? It seemed to make an explosion earlier, and there's a lot of cannons against a couple cornered people.

Dramatic tension. That's the only reason. It was wierd in the manga, too, but this was adapted into 20 minutes of anime.

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Eren's so badass he can talk without his lips moving. Ventriloquist swag. And he switches that shit on mid sentence, like a boss.

Let's have movie quality talking! That's smart usage of budget.

Jun 9, 2013 4:32 AM

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“I wouldn’t mind being eaten as long as it’s by a hot female Titan”. Best quote.

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3nvy said:
What kind of smoke takes that long to clear, in the open fucking air? And furthermore, why couldn't they just shoot in the smoke? It seemed to make an explosion earlier, and there's a lot of cannons against a couple cornered people.

Dramatic tension. That's the only reason. It was wierd in the manga, too, but this was adapted into 20 minutes of anime.

3nvy said:
Eren's so badass he can talk without his lips moving. Ventriloquist swag. And he switches that shit on mid sentence, like a boss.

Let's have movie quality talking! That's smart usage of budget.

Might as well have stuck to the manga, with all the stills. I thought animu was the moving one? You know, like, animated? Mebbe not.

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3nvy said:

misumimi said:
So, people sometimes complain how the characters are rather plain and so on (expect for the potato girl, of course, cause everyone loves her) but when we get to see some character development, they're all like: " sooo boring, more action plz!!"

Haters are not a single unified entity. Often the people who want action and the people who want character development are different people, and you can't please them all. The real problem is that so much of this episode was neither action nor development. It was just drawn out shit.

Yeah, I guess. It's till irritating that no matter what happens, someone is always complaining. But well, that's how it is (especially here).

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3nvy said:

Pipoko said:

3nvy said:
What kind of smoke takes that long to clear, in the open fucking air? And furthermore, why couldn't they just shoot in the smoke? It seemed to make an explosion earlier, and there's a lot of cannons against a couple cornered people.

Dramatic tension. That's the only reason. It was wierd in the manga, too, but this was adapted into 20 minutes of anime.

3nvy said:
Eren's so badass he can talk without his lips moving. Ventriloquist swag. And he switches that shit on mid sentence, like a boss.

Let's have movie quality talking! That's smart usage of budget.

Might as well have stuck to the manga, with all the stills. I thought animu was the moving one? You know, like, animated? Mebbe not.

There was animation, along with stills. It just wasn't amazing. This isn't that bad. Especially, since it's a set-up episode. I wished they'dcover more, but considering what they covered, this is good enough.

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Pipoko said:

3nvy said:
Eren's so badass he can talk without his lips moving. Ventriloquist swag. And he switches that shit on mid sentence, like a boss.

Let's have movie quality talking! That's smart usage of budget.

1)Moving lips without moving jaw vs. not moving lips at all. Hard choice, but I'd pick the first one.

2)It ALREADY means they are having problem with budget management.

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DawnJ said:

Pipoko said:

3nvy said:
Eren's so badass he can talk without his lips moving. Ventriloquist swag. And he switches that shit on mid sentence, like a boss.

Let's have movie quality talking! That's smart usage of budget.

1)Moving lips without moving jaw vs. not moving lips at all. Hard choice, but I'd pick the first one.

2)It ALREADY means they are having problem with budget management.

No it doesn't. All of the action stuff has looked pretty good. If you noticed this episode, Eren's half-titan looks really freaking nice and even the stills do, also look at the Armin salute moment or the skeleton collapsing. It's just that it's a talking episode and most of it is not going to look amazing.

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Eren says "guize we should escape" while they are hiding in cloud of smoke post-cannon fire, but then he goes on a huge monologue about why they should escape, (we fucking know) analyzing the situation, arguing with his pseudo sister, complaining about daddy, making threats, raging, speculating about the enemy's actions, punching his own titan corpse, philosophizing about his situation, praising the fuck out of that blonde trap weirdo, and planning out what he will do after and where he will go. Oh, and we got some inner-Armin whining too. Fucking terrific. Like "bitch, the smoke's gonna clear; you can't do this shit later?" AND THEN THEY DIDN'T EVEN FUCKING TRY TO ESCAPE? What the fuck was the point of that? That ate up more than half the episode?

Please explain this to me. What was the point of this? Is it that obvious? I guess it should be easy to explain then. Why was it so long? Justify it. Why did we get this instead of character development or action? And no, the Armin praise doesn't count as development seeing as we've seen several identical scenes before. Now it's just dragging and redundant. I thought brevity was the soul of wit. Please, justify your vicious slander.

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The smoke is 50% steam from the Eren Titan's corpse.

I already explained before - that debris cloud is more fog than smoke.

Titan corpses also keeps on releasing steam as it decomposes - that's why it took so long to clear.

Plus, pieces of the skeleton kept breaking down and throwing up more dust and dirt which adheres to the steam.

Remember, this show is probably the only anime which highlights again and again that swords will dull.

Jun 9, 2013 4:40 AM

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Pipoko said:
No it doesn't. All of the action stuff has looked pretty good. If you noticed this episode, Eren's half-titan looks really freaking nice and even the stills do, looked at the Armin salute moment or the skeleton collapsing. It's just that it's a talking episode.

They are putting more budget into important(relatively) scenes, I know that. I don't even mind the stills(which will be fixed in BD/DVD anyway), but lips not moving at all? That's beyond ridiculous.

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Jun 9, 2013 4:41 AM

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Pipoko said:
No it doesn't. All of the action stuff has looked pretty good. If you noticed this episode, Eren's half-titan looks really freaking nice and even the stills do, looked at the Armin salute moment or the skeleton collapsing. It's just that it's a talking episode.

They are putting more budget into important(relatively) scenes, I know that. I don't even mind the stills(which will be fixed in BD/DVD anyway), but lips not moving at all? That's beyond ridiculous.

To make up for that, Armin lips and jaws moved very fluidly during his roaring speech to that retard commander.

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Pipoko said:
No it doesn't. All of the action stuff has looked pretty good. If you noticed this episode, Eren's half-titan looks really freaking nice and even the stills do, looked at the Armin salute moment or the skeleton collapsing. It's just that it's a talking episode.

They are putting more budget into important(relatively) scenes, I know that. I don't even mind the stills(which will be fixed in BD/DVD anyway), but lips not moving at all? That's beyond ridiculous.

What moment was that anyway? I just can't bring myself to care because everything that has mattered has been done well, even the lip movements during Armin's speech or with Pixis at the end there.

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pming said:
Remember, this show is probably the only anime which highlights again and again that swords will dull.

Those swords also do more damage than cannons. And they become too dull to use after killing like two people, despite the fact that they're made to kill motherfucking giants. That's actually unrealistic.

And, you make some sense about the smoke, but most of my points remain. They didn't have to wait for all of the smoke to clear, considering what a risky situation it was.

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Pipoko said:
No it doesn't. All of the action stuff has looked pretty good. If you noticed this episode, Eren's half-titan looks really freaking nice and even the stills do, looked at the Armin salute moment or the skeleton collapsing. It's just that it's a talking episode.

They are putting more budget into important(relatively) scenes, I know that. I don't even mind the stills(which will be fixed in BD/DVD anyway), but lips not moving at all? That's beyond ridiculous.

I see the complaints have come full circle. We're back to crying about lips.

Jun 9, 2013 4:44 AM

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This episode was painfully slow and uninteresting. I almost fell asleep... and I noticed some scenes where the characters talked, yet their mouths didn't move. Gee.

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3nvy said:

pming said:
Remember, this show is probably the only anime which highlights again and again that swords will dull.

Those swords also do more damage than cannons. And they become too dull to use after killing like two people, despite the fact that they're made to kill motherfucking giants. That's actually unrealistic.

And, you make some sense about the smoke, but most of my points remain. They didn't have to wait for all of the smoke to clear, considering what a risky situation it was.

The fuck are you talking about? The swords got dulled after killing Titans. They were already dulled when she took out those two guards. Shows how little attention you pay and proves all the more you have no right to gripe about ANYTHING.

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3nvy said:

pming said:
Remember, this show is probably the only anime which highlights again and again that swords will dull.

Those swords also do more damage than cannons. And they become too dull to use after killing like two people, despite the fact that they're made to kill motherfucking giants. That's actually unrealistic.

And, you make some sense about the smoke, but most of my points remain. They didn't have to wait for all of the smoke to clear, considering what a risky situation it was.

They were also terrified and uncertain. Fear also has been a incredibly important thing in this series, but that just depends on whether you buy this whole thing or not.

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To make up for that, Armin lips and jaws moved very fluidly during his roaring speech to that retard commander.

That should be something that's expected always, not praised on the few occasions it happens. We're not talking about Avatar here, it's just lips moving.

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I definitely started to like Armin a little bit after this episode. He always seemed totally redundant and out of place, and in this episode he has proven that he has got some unique characteristics as well.

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They were also terrified and uncertain. Fear also has been a incredibly important thing in this series, but that just depends on whether you buy this whole thing or not.

I don't. A scared person would be more likely to erratically fire the cannons without that much thought and patience.

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The fuck are you talking about? The swords got dulled after killing Titans. They were already dulled when she took out those two guards. Shows how little attention you pay and proves all the more you have no right to gripe about ANYTHING.

Still pretty quick for it to become unusable. Sorry I don't perfectly remember the exact moments that Mikasa replaced her swords throughout the anime, but you ignored my sword>cannons point. Did you miss that? No, you just ignored it because I'm right.

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Anyway, I wonder if they are gonna remove the blatant time-saving recaps in front of almost every episode in BD/DVD.

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Someone's complaining about the soldiers not attacking until the smoke-fog is cleared?

Eh, blame the cowardly commander.

Also, obviously the real time is faster - less than a minute, but we're listening to Armin's thoughts.

In the manga, it looks faster because speed is dependent on how fast the reader reads. In the anime, we have to depend on how fast the VA's speak.

And btw, the VA's can't just speed up their talking - they would sound ridiculous if they talk as fast as chipmunks.

Anyway, slow episode is supposed to be slow. Armin's, Pixis' and Irwin's episodes are mainly talking-speech episodes. This action-packed show doesn't shy away from being wordy once in a while.

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3nvy said:

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They were also terrified and uncertain. Fear also has been a incredibly important thing in this series, but that just depends on whether you buy this whole thing or not.

I don't. A scared person would be more likely to erratically fire the cannons without that much thought and patience.

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The fuck are you talking about? The swords got dulled after killing Titans. They were already dulled when she took out those two guards. Shows how little attention you pay and proves all the more you have no right to gripe about ANYTHING.

Still pretty quick for it to become unusable. Sorry I don't perfectly remember the exact moments that Mikasa replaced her swords throughout the anime, but you ignored my sword>cannons point. Did you miss that? No, you just ignored it because I'm right.

Canons don't work. Or did you miss their regen. You think the titans will just nicely turn around for humans to shoot them in the neck. BESIDES those fuckin things are not precise in the least. That was ALREADY fuckin stated in the series. You blatantly ignore the answers to your world gripes and hide behind ignorance. Pathetic.

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I definitely started to like Armin a little bit after this episode. He always seemed totally redundant and out of place, and in this episode he has proven that he has got some unique characteristics as well.

I'm still not a huge fan, although he's gotten better. His revelation was so cringeworthy.

"Wait a minute. They've told me at least 1000 times since we were kids that I'm not useless. WAIT JUST A MINUTE MEBBE THEY DUNT TINK ME USELESS AFTER ALL?!? NOW INSTEAD OF SAVING LIVES IMMA INTERNALLY GLOAT ABOOT MUH NEWFOUND USEFULLNESS AT THE RISK THAT WE'LL ALL GET SHOT ANY SECOND. BECAUSE I AM THE SMART ONE."-Armin, fuckboi extraordinaire

I take that back. You are definitely a brainless hater. You were right to be included in my statement.

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Anyway, it's a very faithful adaptation of the manga. I've pretty much stopped worrying about original anime ending.

IG followed the manga so closely and all the little anime-only details are added lovingly. I could feel the respect IG has for the original source material.

It also makes me wonder how they're going to present Pixis' upcoming speech. Because imho, that is one badass speech.

Just three more weeks!

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smoke or no smoke... The 15 sec is just too long.
The commander could had just fire blindly into the smoke.

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3nvy said:

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I definitely started to like Armin a little bit after this episode. He always seemed totally redundant and out of place, and in this episode he has proven that he has got some unique characteristics as well.

I'm still not a huge fan, although he's gotten better. His revelation was so cringeworthy.

"Wait a minute. They've told me at least 1000 times since we were kids that I'm not useless. WAIT JUST A MINUTE MEBBE THEY DUNT TINK ME USELESS AFTER ALL?!? NOW INSTEAD OF SAVING LIVES IMMA INTERNALLY GLOAT ABOOT MUH NEWFOUND USEFULLNESS AT THE RISK THAT WE'LL ALL GET SHOT ANY SECOND. BECAUSE I AM THE SMART ONE."-Armin, fuckboi extraordinaire

The point is that they took it as a matter-of-fact thing that Armin always helped them, but he himself never realized that. Just then when Eren asked him to do this thing he understood it. Mikasa even said earlier at the warehouse that Armin had saved them, he just didn't understand that he could be useful because he was constantly being bullied and always fell behind the others.

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smoke or no smoke... The 15 sec is just too long.
The commander could had just fire blindly into the smoke.

Did you miss the fact that he was waiting for them to be reloaded and then Armin came running out with his epic speech thus delaying his fire order even more? Guns would've been worthless since they would just plink off of the Titan Eren husk too.

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Someone's complaining about the soldiers not attacking until the smoke-fog is cleared?

Eh, blame the cowardly commander.

Cowardly? What was he afraid of? The people he already shot at might not forgive him if he shot again? Wouldn't it make more sense for a coward to mindlessly fire at them without thinking about the consequences of his actions and how he could be killing military assets? A coward would favor immediate safety.

This action-packed show doesn't shy away from being wordy once in a while.

Oh, believe me, I've noticed. Verbosity is not an inherent flaw, but needlessly lengthy dialogue is.

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You debate like the French fight.

You mean I have the best track record in my theater of operations? I already proved that France is a military powerhouse so you're complimenting me.

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I think the problem is they used the actual numbers(20sec, 15sec) carelessly when they don't really have to. The same goes with the size of human territories.

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DawnJ said:

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3nvy said:
Eren's so badass he can talk without his lips moving. Ventriloquist swag. And he switches that shit on mid sentence, like a boss.

Let's have movie quality talking! That's smart usage of budget.

1)Moving lips without moving jaw vs. not moving lips at all. Hard choice, but I'd pick the first one.

2)It ALREADY means they are having problem with budget management.

I pick
3) He's having a monologue?

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pming said:
Anyway, it's a very faithful adaptation of the manga. I've pretty much stopped worrying about original anime ending.

IG followed the manga so closely and all the little anime-only details are added lovingly. I could feel the respect IG has for the original source material.

It also makes me wonder how they're going to present Pixis' upcoming speech. Because imho, that is one badass speech.

Just three more weeks!

Wait. There's going to be even more talking? Thought this show was about action & gore.
1/10 Dropped.

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smoke or no smoke... The 15 sec is just too long.
The commander could had just fire blindly into the smoke.

Did you miss the fact that he was waiting for them to be reloaded and then Armin came running out with his epic speech thus delaying his fire order even more? Guns would've been worthless since they would just plink off of the Titan Eren husk too.

reloading a canon took 15 minute xD
oh wait, its 15minute in reality but 15sec only in Anime.

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MorningGlory said:
smoke or no smoke... The 15 sec is just too long.
The commander could had just fire blindly into the smoke.

Did you miss the fact that he was waiting for them to be reloaded and then Armin came running out with his epic speech thus delaying his fire order even more? Guns would've been worthless since they would just plink off of the Titan Eren husk too.

reloading a canon took 15 minute xD
oh wait, its 15minute in reality but 15sec only in Anime.

Those 15 minutes had other simultaneous scenes. Like the one with the suicidal solider, and Jean and even Armin's own internal monologue. Seriously.

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I honestly can't take you seriously anymore. I've read some posts through the random pages, and you're on pretty much every one of them, bashing the series, then proclaiming yourself "a critic" and not "a hater" and then back to the former one. It's fine though, I chuckled a couple of times thanks to you.

@episode

I really liked this scene in the manga and I think anime did adapt it quite well. It took a bit too long for my taste (they should have went up ahead, perhaps to the point where Eren turns into titan or when they gather that little squad around them) but whatever. I'm just glad it's faithful to the manga. I really don't care about the action that's happening right now that much. It's flashy, it's great, true, but the scene I've been waiting (still am) since the EP1, well ... woods and fists and shit. Enough of the hints.

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"Uh..they have this one still, let's debate about it for five pages".

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I honestly can't take you seriously anymore. I've read some posts through the random pages, and you're on pretty much every one of them, bashing the series, then proclaiming yourself "a critic" and not "a hater" and then back to the former one. It's fine though, I chuckled a couple of times thanks to you.

@episode

I really liked this scene in the manga and I think anime did adapt it quite well. It took a bit too long for my taste (they should have went up ahead, perhaps to the point where Eren turns into titan or when they gather that little squad around them) but whatever. I'm just glad it's faithful to the manga. I really don't care about the action that's happening right now that much. It's flashy, it's great, true, but the scene I've been waiting (still am) since the EP1, well ... woods and fists and shit. Enough of the hints.

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Jun 9, 2013 5:12 AM

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I think it only took 20 seconds to reload the canon.

But anyway, the time dilation in this episode is peanuts compared to sports anime.

Aside from Armin character development, this episode highlights that there are other ways to solve a problem other than via force. Remember in episode 9 when Mikasa wanted to fight the soldiers head on and Armin was shouting at her to reconsider. That they should try to explain, to talk to them. Cause fear makes people blind.

It parallels real life. Resorting to violence instead of peaceful means happens way too much in real life. And usually - it's the wrong course of action.

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3nvy said:

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"Uh..they have this one still, let's debate about it for five pages".

It wasn't a still. And if SnK had only one still per episode then nobody would be complaining.

I meant you being stuck on this one still. There's stills in this episode. It's a talking episode. What a revelation.

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I honestly can't take you seriously anymore.

Aight.

I've read some posts through the random pages, and you're on pretty much every one of them,

Yeah. I can't fall asleep. What else was I supposed to do at 4 in the morning? I'm too tired to pay attention to anime. I'm so tired that when I first typed this post I kept putting "spoiler" instead of "quote" without noticing. I'm gonna try to go to sleep again after this.

bashing the series,

In this thread. I've praised it in others. This episode was particularly bad.

then proclaiming yourself "a critic" and not "a hater"

Did I say that? Well, no need to dwell on it. They're just meaningless buzzwords, for the most part.

and then back to the former one.

Wouldn't the former one be "critic?" And isn't that what I said I was in the first place? I certainly never identified as a hater.

t's fine though,

Aight. We cool bruv.

I chuckled a couple of times thanks to you.

Well. At least you got some value out of my posts. I thought my futurama reference was decently humorous.

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Not much hype about this episode.. I bet the score's going to drop :C

I thought it was good, it doesnt have to be 100 % killing all the time. It was exciting, living up to the other episodes imo. To make it drop because of one episode is hilarious, those who do that shouldnt have the possibility to judge..

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Loved Armin in this episode, it was his time to shine.
It was kinda slow, no action. But it was still exciting, it doesn't have to be over 75% killing al the time.

5/4

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(cannot worry)

Episode 13 will make it go back up.

Scouting Arc also has Levi in most episodes. And Hanji.

I underestimated the impact of Episode 9. I'm trying to not underestimate Levi's popularity again.

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MorningGlory said:
smoke or no smoke... The 15 sec is just too long.
The commander could had just fire blindly into the smoke.

The recharge of the cannons is 20 sec. The convo b/w the trio took that long in the manga. And it was even more weird. I enjoy the smoke, dust, vapour, and adjacent titan special effects in the anime - they lift off naturally longer and that much the anime can adapt b/w media. As for Armin's recollections, don't they say when you're about to die your whole life passes like a movie :3

I am certain the "Vermin" would blast blindly the Wall because he is a diligent soldier and commander to boot. You are right about this one. It's very inconvenient that there's a titan in a meh state that saves their lives and they don't know even why and how.

(Just saying).

Jun 9, 2013 5:37 AM

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I liked Armin in this episode. :3
Damn it. We have to wait next week again. -___-

Jun 9, 2013 5:43 AM

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