Season three continues to be a surprising delight though not without some issues, as episode 7 drops yet more information about the walls and the world even while the scouts continue to fight to get to Eren.
The fight at the start of this episode is brutal, but over fairly quickly all things considered as the second half of this episode has bigger fish to fry. Seeing some of the scouts in action against other humans is both unsettling and all fairly exhilarating. What amazed me more was how few casualties the scouts seemed to take but they kind of saved all their shock for a single character getting taken down and that is where they were left with the enemy retreating to another chamber. The action in this sequence is good and the smokey visuals plays well into it. The sounds of the ODM are fantastic as are the shots and the sounds of the blades. Where I will criticise it is where it brings in a music soundtrack though that is probably more personal taste because I found it both distracting and fairly uninspired. Still, in terms of follow ups to cliff-hangers this delivered plenty that was worth waiting for.
Still, the greater part of the episode lay with Eren, Historia, Reiss and surprisingly Kenny. I kind of thought they would drag out Kenny’s motive for working with Reiss for longer but apparently not, and apparently, Kenny is the kind of guy that kicks over the sand-castle when he doesn’t get what he wants. Realising his own plan is going to come to nothing, he throws a serious spanner in the works of Reiss’ plan.
Meanwhile, Historia seems to be going along beautifully with Reiss’ plan before she suddenly asks the most sensible question I’ve ever heard come out of an Attack on Titan character’s mouth and I’ll applaud the show for this first moment that I absolutely did not see coming. And this, while we see an Eren who for the first time ever actually made me feel bad for him as a character. This was a serious moment where for the first time ever, I didn’t enjoy seeing Eren restrained, emotionally hurt, and essentially the world’s punching bag.
If I were to make a list of characters I don’t mind seeing get beaten up, Eren would be fairly high on that list (Ichigo from Bleach probably tops it out though because Ichigo getting beat up usually means he’s about to do something awesome). And yet in this episode Eren is at perhaps the most pathetic I’ve ever seen him. He doesn’t shout or yell, but resigns himself to letting things happen because no matter how you want to spin it, a lot of people have died because of his father’s choice. Maybe just as many would have died anyway but we have no way of knowing that.
So two things from Attack on Titan I didn’t think possible, plus Historia’s coolest moment ever, plus a cliffhanger that actually seems like it could be kind of cool and if last week to this week is any indicator, we won’t be left disappointed (hopefully).
By the way, I reserve the right to go back to hating Eren the next time he starts shouting.
Previous Reviews:
- Attack on Titan Series Review
- Attack on Titan Season 2 Series Review
- Season 3 Episode 1: Why Not Add Another Faction
- Season 3 Episode 2: Whatever It Takes
- Season 3 Episode 3: Rewriting the Past Won’t Make It Go Away
- Season 3 Episode 4: A Time For Everything
- Season 3 Episode 5: Yourself or Humanity?
- Season 3 Episode 6: So Many Puzzle Pieces
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Karandi James
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Just finished the episode myself, and had a total blast watching this. Ever since the beginning of this season I have found myself amazed how they changed the format of the show, and are getting away with it too. This episode was incredible (and surprising …no Eren shouts lol…guess he was afraid people would turn on him like they did on Asta), but this certainly delivered! And of course the gloves are now off, and it will be interesting to see what Eren is going to do 😊😊
Eren delivered whole lines of dialogue without shouting or sounding petulant. Admittedly that was because he was slightly emotionally broken at the time, but as I said, for once I actually felt bad for the character. They possibly should have tried this earlier and then maybe I would have been more caring when he first got kidnapped.
Haha..yeah I guess you are right about that 😂😂 Oh well, who knows, maybe Eren will finally grow into a character that we are going to like? One can never tell 😊😊
Ha ha, season three is so good that it even makes Eren a human character. This whole arc has felt so human and natural with everything that it’s so interesting and so intriguing.
If only it hadn’t taken so many deus est machina to get to this point…
Yeah, there’s a few issues with the narrative as a whole. Early season one sensationalism meant it wasn’t such an issue but as things progressed it became more and more a problem.
I am really enjoying this season. There’s a lot of stuff in the second half of season 1 and most of season 2 I probably could have done without, but I’ve really liked what they’ve presented so far this season.