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I'm telling you, he's gonna eat them and take their powers!
I'm also remembering now that scene where Annie showed Eren how to fight hand to hand, and in that one scene when he was a titan, he used that style. Is it a secret Titan martial art?! I say yes!
Annie taught Eren how to flip someone onto their back by tripping their leg (he did to to Jean in the mess hall), while the only thing I really remember from Eren-Titan was the head-slap. I don't remember Annie teaching him that (:D)Quote:
Originally Posted by DarthEnderX
She did beat the shit out of him though during training (and Reiner too, or whoever was telling Eren to "be a soldier")
Annie takes a kickboxing stance when fighting, and Eren emulated that when he was a Titan.
Go Muay Thaitan!
*nods sagely*Quote:
Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
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That female Titan sure does spice the eps up.
My interrest in that show was going down the well before it appeared, mainly because Titans were too simple in their actions.
Now that Female Titan gives variety and is a very tough opponent.
Regarding the Levi, my guess is that he didn't give an attack order because he understands none of the people here can fight that monster. He understands he stands no chance against it too. He knows that surviving is always the best option when it's available of course. Also, right below the survival priority, he still has a mission to protect Eren. Sending his group to death, fighting that Titan would just have him fail at surviving and protecting Eren. So he keeps running.
There's another point too, we all know by now that the mission's real objective isn't what everyone has been told.
Even if Levi doesn't know the true objective, he probably understands what to do.
Now regarding the trees giving an advantage.
Well it's true they are high enough to be out of reach from most Titans.
But you can not move around as easily as in a city environment because of branches. Even though I think I remember they did train in Forests, so maybe they can manage.
Last but not least, we've seen that Female Titan cut a tree with a simple chop. I guess other Titans could do that too, if they were smart enough, and have some people fall from trees...
Now, on a totally different note... I'm pretty sure there's some nasty ero titan doujin around... like Mikasa Titan doing things and all.
:D
It's pretty safe to say there's a plan. It started with Erwin revealing publicly the goal. It continued with the decision to push forward despite the catastrophic casualties due to the abnormal titan. Thus it's safe to say the forest is no coincidence. Nobody knows shit because there are traitors among them, as slaying the two captive titans proved. Although it would make sense for Levi to be in. It might be too hard for Erwin to control everything by himself.
What annoyed me the most during this episode, in addition to people willingly getting themselves killed, is Eren. He was supposed to be an obsessed, almost homicidal titan-killer, but now he's like any regular greenhorn scared next to witless. He should be trembling from anticipation and fuming because they are held back, not given the permission to attack.
what exactly were they supossed to do? Armin Rainer and Jean did they same thing, they were just lucky that the titan decided not to kill them in one blow.Quote:
What annoyed me the most during this episode, in addition to people willingly getting themselves killed, is Eren.
and Eren saw himself how that titan killed 3 guys in less than a minute without even stopping his charge
just like all the other veterans around him (who fought and killed more titans than Eren has even seen so far), nobody knows what to do, except for Levi, confusion leads to panicQuote:
e was supposed to be an obsessed, almost homicidal titan-killer, but now he's like any regular greenhorn scared next to witless.
this episode was amazing and got me hyped for the next one
They aren't defending a city or evacuating civilians here. As soon as they noticed they are fighting a titan with the intelligence of a human, they should have just given up and decided to stay alive instead of heedlessly attacking.Quote:
Originally Posted by KrayZ33
I'm pretty sure Eren has killed just as many titans as these veterans. He killed a score of them while in his titan form. Besides, that doesn't even have anything to do with what I said: I said Eren should have been obsessed with killing titans, after he watched them eat his mother. But there's no sign of that anymore. Now he behaved like any normal new soldier would. I preferred his old self that was stupidly eager to massacre giants.Quote:
Originally Posted by KrayZ33
they had to keep the formation going and protect the center, if they just ran the whole thing would've collapsed ... thats not how it works, its not "everyone for himself"
and eren killing stuff in his titan form (he can't even remember that) and trying to kill stuff in human form are totally different things
its not like he's already so far to say "I'll simply transform into a titan and get rid of that thing.. and turn back to normal after I'm done with that"
of course it does, and after getting your leg bitten off and then being swallowed by a titan, you might think things change quite a bit.. because thats what happened when he charged into them just like you want him toQuote:
that doesn't even have anything to do with what I said: I said Eren should have been obsessed with killing titans, after he watched them eat his mother.
in fact you want him to do (or be eager to do) the thing you just said was extremely stupid ... attacking. I'm pretty happy to see that he's not Naruto.
Krista confirmed for maximum waifu material.
I think it's weird for Eren to draw fucking sword when he can transform into a Titan. Also the female Titan is IFF capable, sparing some, killing some, trying to capture Eren.
Now what I want to see here is theories. Whats the plan for the human and what is the goal of the female Titan ?
He can transform. But he cannot guaranteedly control it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Inazuma
female titan/annie wants to kill eren. it makes no sense to capture him, since there would have been plenty of less risky alternatives to get ahold of him.Quote:
Now what I want to see here is theories. Whats the plan for the human and what is the goal of the female Titan ?
What formation, huh? There's no formation exactly because they keep getting themselves killed! The whole idea of the visible plan was to use the scouts to inform the whole formation of the locations of the titans and adjust the movements accordingly. But now they ended up losing all the scouts of one sector and turned blind. Their objective wasn't to kill titans but to reach the target location. That's why the priority should have been to preserve strength to maintain the formation, not thrown everything they had at the abnormal one.Quote:
Originally Posted by KrayZ33
Not everyone single-mindedly eager to follow their path and fight needs to be a blistering idiot like Naruto. He could have been like Black Star. But right now he's back to being a nobody. Even Naruto might be better than a nobody, you know.
I think it should be obvious by now that the plan is to do something about the pursuer.
Eren is a noob, who is a weak piece of shit who loses almost all of his fights without Mikasa saving his ass. Even then, he dives in and gets beaten up. Yeah, he is a nobody from the get go, but at least now he isn't actively rushing in without realizing his position, which is basically a noob.
I would side with the complaints if this goes on for longer though, but juding from the preview title, it won't.
The whole scouting thing was done so that the original plan looked like it was real. The entire thing was bait, and it doesn't work if you make it smell like a trap. The whole idea about the formation "changing direction based on flare input" means that the group running randomly into the forest seemed plausible, instead of making seem like it was a trap and an objective all along.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
The weaker people were supposed to stay outside the forest and keep all the normal titans at bay while the central, titan-capable team were focused on luring out the traitors while using Eren as bait.
I'm not sure what trump cards the humans have though, since they'd need one to deal with the overpowering titan. Perhaps Erwin placed a giant pit-fall spike-trap earlier? :p
I seriously considered Krista a candidate for Blonde-Titan when she showed up. It was just... so convenient. But by the end of the episode, those mad CQC skills could belong to none other than Annie. I hope she doesn't die. I've grown to like her now (more so because of her titan form. I sure hope this doesn't develop into a de-gloving fetish for me.)
Regarding Eren, I think he's been beaten into submission and discipline after joining the Rangers. Don't forget that he was under trail and was supposed to be killed if he rebelled. He's had to dampen his desires and emotions since then so that he's always in control. It might even make his titan form more controllable. Annie's pretty cold/composed, and she rocks that titan like a boss.
I wouldn't actually have wanted him to rush in now, possibly ruining what Erwin and Levi had in mind, but I'd have liked him to want to rush in. That's the difference. He wouldn't need to be an idiot who ruins everything, but he could be a man who would eagerly use every opportunity to kill a titan and get stronger by doing so. A main character with no initiative of his own is annoying.
I wonder which parts of these episodes made you think anybody but Erwin and Levi knew that beforehand. Because it sure looked to me like even the brainman, Armin, realised it only when they were already in the forest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
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Originally Posted by Kraco
Female Titan (and the other abnormal too btw) is faster than them on horses, end of story its fight/delay her or die
wasn't really difficult to understand, since they said that like 20 times, but if that wasn't enough, we've seen it with our own eyes
"we have to stop her now, or she'll be at the center/kill the rookies in no time, HUAAA!"
not to mention that *she* was attacking them when it started...not the other way around
and they weren't even going for the kill anymore, they tried to get her legs to slow her down and escape
Yeah, that seemed pretty obvious last week, where everyone seemed to think Eren was in a different place.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
It's obvious he announced to everyone that Eren could defeat the titans, then everyone was told a separate location for Eren,
So once the titan's attack drove them towards one specific section, now he knows who's the traitor based on who he told Eren was in that section.
The female titan basically made a bee-line to one specific section of the formation, ignoring everything else, when she got there, she started checking everyone. Armin figures out, out loud, where Erin ACTUALLY is, then Reiner gets himself caught by her, and "escapes" and then she suddenly immediately starts running towards where Eren actually is.
That scene was funny. To bad she'll probably die horribly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Inazuma
She's basically checking all the ones she thinks might be Eren. Anyone who's not Eren gets destroyed, EXCEPT the ones she recognizes as her fellow cadets(like Armin and Jean). She's probably sparing them out of sentimentality.Quote:
Originally Posted by Inazuma
So I've only watched through ep 13, but I can't really get into this. Like, the trailer was incredible, and the action fights are amazing. Really, I just want to watch a lot of grappling hook sky-surfing giant slashing, but they keep putting all this weird stuff in there. The whole story/characters are just weird. It's all just one giant oozing existential crisis. The angst drains out everything else.
And i don't really care about violence in my cartoons (like i said, ideally this series would be dudes flying and slashing, nothing more), but when it tries to moralize, glorify, and justify the violence then it gets weird. "oh, a mantis ate a moth, therefore killing is always justified" some kind of reverse Jainism going on here. Like, characters killing things, who cares it's a tv show. But making moral arguments through the character's actions elevates the relevance of the violence and how it's being presented. Suddenly it's not just cool animation, but it's about influencing my worldview and how i see real people/situations in real life.
I'm pretty sure the author just read a bunch of Nietzsche and decided to build a fantasy story around it.
or maybe I should leave the lit crit out of the cartoons.
Perhaps some different anime would be more up alley...like Naruto fillers...or Pokemon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pandadice
If you want a similiar anime but with more action and less talking, watch "Claymore".