This is when Attack On Titan sadly starts to become genuinely bad. This is easily the worst episode thus far in the entire series, and an embarrassment. In just 1 episode we see all the non Yeagerist characters join up and come together to "Save the world." HA! What fan fiction is this?! This is the direction the storyline is taking? Hmmm, I wonder where the story is going now, totally not gonna end like any average battle shounen! Nothing makes sense anymore. Crazy how Gabi can already perfectly ride a horse, remember when they specifically stated she knew barely anything about them? Jean is not a Yeagerist, all the characters met up off screen and planned together, no drama yet about working with what were previously your enemies and have been killing each other. None of the Yeagerists noticed the big noisy cart Titan? We also have the egregiously dumb Connie subplot. At least Connie calls himself an idiot! Honestly conceptually it could've worked, it's kinda creepy when he has Falco and acts like he just wants to brush the Titan's teeth, but the execution of this arc relies on major contrivances, like the timing of all the events, dumb character moments, like when Armin literally risks the colossal Titan in a stupid stunt, and the placement in the story is wrong, which makes this subplot useless. It ultimately is filler, as none of the characters mention how Connie literally just tried to kill an innocent child. I honestly wish Connie inadvertently fell into his mother's mouth because of this, which I thought could've been an super cool and interesting direction, but whatever. I haven't even gotten to the worst part yet. The rumbling just happened and again where's the tension, stakes, urgency? These last 2 episodes feel mostly like filler. Once the rumbling begins it's pretty much over, what are they gonna do realistically? Before I get to the worst part, the only positive I can give this episode is the scene in the beginning, I like the shot of the characters trying to sleep with the rumbling, something simple that I don't think most people would initially think about but cool they showed. But yeah... that pie scene, oh my lord. How do we get the characters to meet Annie? They conveniently happen sit next to her while she's eating, and then laugh at her eating a pie. Wow, what a funny and great moment for the characters to meet the main villain of the first season who mercilessly murdered multiple of their friends! Armin even shows concern for her since Connie laughs what?! I mean I get he wants Annie (who's in an underage body, Uh oh), but they don't question how she got out, if she killed anyone on the way, what she knows, and what she's gonna do?! Worst scene in the series yet, in a terrible episode with inconsistent characters, a hugely contrived plot, the wrong tone, and bad writing. What a joke. I desperately want an anime original ending, but even an AOE won't save the last arc if it's gonna adapt such crap moments.
Edit: Totally forgot about Mikasa's moment where she cares more about a scarf that a dying girl. A dying girl who's hero is Mikasa... What happened to this character? Also this review got deleted? I have no idea why, do AOT fans just mass report any negative review? I believe it, but my review didn't do anything wrong. Originally gave this a 3/10, but the more I think of it the more I hate it. This just goes against everything that's been set up before, what happened?!
Edit: Totally forgot about Mikasa's moment where she cares more about a scarf that a dying girl. A dying girl who's hero is Mikasa... What happened to this character? Also this review got deleted? I have no idea why, do AOT fans just mass report any negative review? I believe it, but my review didn't do anything wrong. Originally gave this a 3/10, but the more I think of it the more I hate it. This just goes against everything that's been set up before, what happened?!