Reviews

There's nothing I can say that haven't been said already but I'm just gonna add that there's probably no other story, no matter the medium, where the existential anguish of a human race on the brink of extinction is represented as masterfully as it was on this show. It's one of the more human shows I have watched particularly because we don't get the usual idealistic (and caricaturistic) representation of the soldier that we are accustomed to. The soldiers on Attack on Titan are human, they are very brave yes but they are also afraid for their lives and that of their comrades. They are aware that in the real world no one is a protagonist and life can be taken away from them at any moment. This is where the show is strongest but also where I found its major weakness because it reminds us, rather emphatically, that it has an actual protagonist that can escape death and almost any kind of harm that would be fatal if it befell any other character. I'm not rating this show a 10 because of this and I felt very disappointed when this development happened. I thought it was a betrayal of what the show could've become. To me it seemed like the author wasn't sure if that was the way that he wanted to go and it seemed like he hesitated for a while but in the end he took the easy way out. Still, it is very much worth a watch since it is very good but I'm pretty certain that it is just going to go downhill from here in the following seasons. This coupled with the fact that Isayama already said that he is changing the ending he originally had in mind because of the fans and, well, the seeds for a mediocre outcome have already been planted. I hope I'm proven wrong though.