What the hell was the direction this episode, with window shots, so many tree shots, stew, still shots? I know that someone will say symbolism, of course, but you don't have to show it for so long, it's probably Mappa saving time and money, I respect that. But for real this episode just felt so weird. I hate how they skipped the intro for such a lackluster scene. Hange just makes erroneous assumptions of what people believe. Jean Is the only person acting relatively in character. It just makes no sense to stop the rumbling, if they do they're essentially killing themselves, and logically they can't. But we need to force the plot. Once again shows Jean should've been an yeagerist. They had to show all the dead characters like that to try to get some emotion from you, but nah that was cheesy, there's no subtlety left in this show, especially with all the tree shots haha. They even cut some small but good moments that really added to the characters. I absolutely hate Annie now, and I can't stand her, especially when she woke up Reiner last episode by kicking him in the face, but in the manga we actually see Annie treating Reiner after the beating, but this is cut?! Why, you trying to make Annie be even less likable? This was actually one of the better chapters of the final arc, though still not any good, but for once they actually executed it worse. Jean is the only interesting character right now, I liked his moment with the dream. This episode conceptually is great, having all these different characters with different views and from different sides coming together, Jean gets some good moments here, but it's just that it feels so forced and untrue to the characters just to eventually force these characters to work together and continue with the plot. Why do they assume Marley and Liberio is still safe when it's literally the closest place to Paradis, they'd be the first to be destroyed? There's barely any true or interesting drama, it's completely shallow. Yelena also gets a good moment work her past and valid criticism of the alliance, she literally mentions their past actions, like how Annie has killed multiple survey corps, and the characters are seriously still chill with Annie?! It just shows them being sad, boohoo, where's the conflict? How the characters ignore this is perfectly shown when Jean mentions the good soup instead of everything Yelena said! Magath gives a simplistic and ignorant view, Hange just says "genocide Bad." No... really?! Yeah of course Genocide is bad, please give another option or a solution though. This is an episode which is trying to seem deep like Midnight Sun, which is a brilliant episode, but doesn't actually have much depth or makes sense if you think about it. Jean is the only one with a proper reaction, arguing. At least Reiner and Annie admit to Marcos death, but why does Jean attack Reiner and let Annie slide?! Only valid Annie moment was questioning how they were going to stop Eren, they can't, unless they get BS plot armor and contrived deus ex Machina solutions. This episode ultimately the only drama we'll get between these characters, and for the potential it's underwhelming. It's not actually as bad as some of the episodes we'll get but it's just not that good either. Not trying to be this negative but it's just so frustrating. This is an episode that gets worse the more you think of it, at first I wouldn't call it bad, but now thinking of it more I think it is. Most of the dialogue makes no sense, is out of character, hypocritical and forced.