Attack on Titan EP 55
Added 2024-05-08 19:00:06 +0000 UTC*screaming intensifies*
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Hahaha 😅😅 I keep slipping up, I figure most of you have seen it but you never know 😂 I can’t watch the intro now cuz I just NEED to get right to it 😂 FINALLY THE BASEMENTTTT
Blaire
2024-05-09 17:48:58 +0000 UTCI caught this two episodes ago… but I caught you again, I see what spoiler you know 👀🤭🤭 But you’re free to watch the intro now if you’d like to!! You’ll see why I said not to watch it 😅😂 But finally !!! You’re at the basement now FINALLLYYY!!!
Julia
2024-05-09 16:33:35 +0000 UTCThe thing with Erwin is that he was dreaming about the memory from his childhood, so technically he raised his hand to be able to ask the question. I get the idea of him finally being free of the hell and resting in peace now, but at the same time he dedicated his whole life to the humanity. I understand the point of view of Armin having dreams beyond just the basement, but it is more like “just dreams… he didn’t dedicate his whole life for a certain goal as Erwin”. I mean, now, when they are all older, Armin is also dedicating everything (literally his life) for the world beyond the walls, but until Eren decided to join The Survey Corps, he had been only “dreaming as if it was child’s dream”. Whereas Erwin has always been more like “real researcher”, so he dedicated his whole life to this, so it would be nice to let his dream become true to learn about what is going on with the world/if and how much he was correct. He says his dream/goal is the basement, but that is just as it is now, because that may tell more, but he was doing all of this even before knowing any basement existed. After the very end of this show, I got the answer to this question if it was correct to choose Armin over Erwin (LoL, their names are different just by changing one letter and then putting M upside down 😅😅, both are strongly blond… Armin is like some early reincarnation of Erwin), but throughout the whole rest of the show I asked myself many times: “How would have the scenario gone if they saved Erwin?” Because there are many questionable moments + even the characters themselves question it. Although not literally, but they have those kind of moments of “what if… what would he do?” To make it clear, I am not against Armin being saved. I am just trying to look at that unbiased, because obviously viewers/readers get attached to Armin way more, so even if we know saving Erwin might be the right decision, we cannot help ourselves and let Armin die. So because of that I am trying to think about it from the pure perspective of what is actually good/important. Because Armin has developed a lot since we got to know him as the “scared child”, but the thing is he has yet to develop more, because we are going to the war (this is not spoiler, I mean it just from the pure perspective of those Titan Shifters coming back from their mission without the Founding Titan and actually losing two more 😅😅, which obviously is not a good thing and they will not leave it like this…). So sure, if there was a lot of time for Armin to develop, he could surpass Erwin most likely, but the thing is we don’t know or actually… they themselves didn’t know at all how much time they have for anything to be fair, so that’s why I am asking if not saving the more experienced wasn’t a wrong decision. Also… sure there is another aspect as you said of training to use the Colossal Titan, which would be new for both of them. But there is the whole aspect of “will they be able to live with the fact of being a titan shifter?” + knowing when to use the powers (especially in the case of Colossal Titan) and in this regard Erwin has always been way more stoic. + (and now I am not sure if we got to know this information already or if it is yet to be said out loud, but technically we could easily assume that based on the fact that the royal family would pass down the powers after a specific amount of years… I cannot find right now when it is mentioned for the first time, but I guess the number isn’t a big spoiler by now and I would say it was mentioned somewhere around the time we got Kenny’s flasback, because we could see Uri Reiss being “too old” compared to the fact he wasn’t that much old when he gain the Founding Titan…) So… basically… once you acquire any of the 9 titans, your life will end in 13 years from the moment. The reason behind this is yet to be explained, so I’ll stop right here. But yeah… basically with making someone a titan shifter, you make sure they will die once they reach the 13 years benchmark (I hope benchmark is correct to be used here 😅). Which… I don’t want to say: “Hey, let’s choose the older one, because anyway he would die soon”, but at the same time choosing Armin feels like: “You might be able to reach your dreams seeing the world behind the walls, but well… nevertheless you will die sooner than the rest of us (if we make it there and survive)”.
WiseSmellyLegs
2024-05-08 21:38:45 +0000 UTC
