Attack on Titan 3x10
Added 2024-02-23 17:12:50 +0000 UTCThese are pretty dense, so editing takes a bit longer. Such brilliant writing, though! =)
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hahaha, I meant humility, but no guarantee to what my brain produced :D
M U
2024-02-26 21:40:53 +0000 UTCDid you say the ape teaching reiner a lesson in humanity or humility? I spit my soup out 😂
david ammerman
2024-02-26 19:58:16 +0000 UTCI think kenny doubted his worldview very early on - he thought power was everything but the most powerful human seemed to think otherwise so he started chasing power not just for powers sake but in order to learn why the most powerful human thinks otherwise - still acting on his worldview but already starting to be curious about other worldviews, maybe because learning more about those would align with chasing his
HAL
2024-02-26 01:51:32 +0000 UTCbtw, might be notable, with the way the seasons are split up and the numebrso f episodes per part and the finale specials its not perfectly obvious but in terms of total runtime the end of this episode is about the mid point of the entire show, you're about halfway through with this
HAL
2024-02-25 15:23:49 +0000 UTCI guess technically mikasa could've punched him and asked historia for a pardon buuuut its more of a fun gesture so having someone with a lighter punch do it is better anyways
HAL
2024-02-25 09:55:28 +0000 UTCI mean bitch is used kindof genderneutrally in some circles but yeah, cow is actually more questionable though its a much more common/light insult in germany but yeah theres better options like devilspawn
HAL
2024-02-25 09:49:48 +0000 UTCthe temptation to write fake spoilers to dilute/counteract potential real ones vs the knowledge that even those owuld influence your expactations
HAL
2024-02-25 09:47:07 +0000 UTCI laughed out loud as well hahaha
Russell Gambardella
2024-02-25 02:39:55 +0000 UTCWhy would you post spoilery hints?
BlastYoBoots
2024-02-25 00:52:30 +0000 UTCHi, new patron here! I posted this comment on your latest public episode but didn’t realize you were so far ahead (your reactions and informed commentary are great as always!), so forgive me if this is a little distant from your constant mentions about Historia’s awful mother, but I figured I’d repost it here too: I know this is a really big ask and would be a difficult habit to break even if you wanted to, but could you please try to avoid using heavily gendered insults like “cow”? I know these are horrible characters you’re describing, but you wouldn’t call a man a “cow”, and the perpetuation of those heavily gendered insults ultimately propagates some really toxic female stereotypes even if that isn’t our intention. I still haven’t broken myself of the habit of saying “bi###” so I have work to do myself, but “cow” and the stereotypes it perpetuates is actually one of the *worst* still around if you sit back and think about it for a moment. I know it’s difficult and I WON'T judge if you can’t break the habit, but there are no shortage of other satisfying curses and insults you can use to describe a (for example) s###-eating, reprehensible, rat-f#### heartless devilspawn, etc— without resorting to gendered insults. I really think society could do without "wh###" and "cow" and women would be reflexively thought of better because of it, just like we've made race-specific insults taboo as a society and thats been for the better.
BlastYoBoots
2024-02-24 13:48:35 +0000 UTCif you want to talk, what is evil and what is not, wait for s4. You will know why when it comes to it
Marc Schuster
2024-02-24 11:56:44 +0000 UTCHistoria has her priorities right. The first thing she does after her crowning is what Mikasa told her 2 episodes back "When you are Queen you can punch that runt in the face". Well, she didn't punch him in the face, but the gesture matters. Since Mikasa can't punch Levi herself, she passed this idea on to Historia. Therefore Mikasa's grin of satisfaction when everyone just aaah. Then also Historia with her little war cry to get up the courage to really punch Levi. That really made my day when I saw that for the first time. Levi's thank you to them all at the end carries so much weight. Unknowingly, they have recharged Levi's almost empty batteries a little.
Nameless
2024-02-23 20:41:50 +0000 UTCHe calls it compassion but I actually think it was a lot more than that. He just didn't really have the right words for it. I think what Kenny was really after was *understanding*. He wanted to see what the world was like from his friend's point of view, and yeah compassion was definitely part of that but not the fullness of it. He even insulted the talks of love and compassion, so I think more truly he was looking for the understanding and worldview that would show him why that compassion was worth feeling.
FullHeart
2024-02-23 20:12:37 +0000 UTCI feel like people don't talk much about it but, yeah, Levi realizing that titans were people with a past life that he had been killing without a second thought was something that really affected him.
Krul
2024-02-23 20:02:23 +0000 UTCI have always found fascinating that Kenny's reason for trying to get the Founding Titan power was that he wanted to know how it feels to be compassionate. In a world like the one Kenny grew up, compassion (specially from people without power) would only get you killed. So he was right when he said that the reason why the king of the walls could have the luxury of being compassionate was because he had power. I also find fascinating the idea of the king of the walls as this ancient being that keeps being reborn. We have seen before that every time a member of the royal family gets all of these memories they change their mind and become this holy, compassionate being that insists on having humanity imprisoned within the walls. We still don't know what is in those memories, but we can see in this episode that the king of the walls was indeed sincere in his hope of creating paradise on earth in the dying moments of humanity. Finally, Kenny's take that everyone is a slave of something, and the implication that Eren is a slave to his notion of freedom is, as you mentioned in the video, one of the most interesting points of the show.
Krul
2024-02-23 19:55:45 +0000 UTCThe end 😆😆😆
puremetalcore
2024-02-23 18:27:51 +0000 UTC~32:53 LMAO, close but you have to set up the lighting to get the anime effect where the light reflects off the glasses obscuring your eyes :D
Anna Kyruin
2024-02-23 18:14:49 +0000 UTCLove seeing you think through the idea of being enslaved to something at your core and applied it to the rest of the story so quickly.
Phthalo
2024-02-23 18:14:24 +0000 UTC~28:40 I love your take on Kenny's monologue about being a slave. I think the one thing you didn't comment on that struck me was that he ends it by asking Levi "And what are you? A Hero?" implying that Levi is potentially a slave to being heroic. It's interesting because despite his brooding exterior we see Levi constantly displaying what Kenny implied he lacks; compassion. The way Levi took in Isobel, held the hand of the dying soldier, constantly emphasizes the deaths of his comrades to Erwin, gave Petra's badge to Deiter etc. one might interpret it as a defining character trait of Levi, which makes his line at the end of S2 even more tragic "You mean I've been spending all this time and energy running around killing people?". Edit: One thing I forgot to add, if Eren is a slave to freedom, I would not say Armin is also. I would say Armin is more a slave to curiousity and wonder, freedom is just a means to an end there I think.
Anna Kyruin
2024-02-23 18:09:51 +0000 UTC
