A LONG ATTACK ON TITAN RANT
So I’m binging through Aot once again and I get to the rumbling arc which is just so poorly written. I don’t want to criticize Isayama too much because he has been very open about how much he struggled when it came to writing the ending. But good god, everything feels so rushed and the whole concept of the rumbling doesn’t even make sense.
Like yes sure the Eldian empire slaughtered and conquered people for 2000 years, that’s deeply fucked up but the current oppressors are Marley. Ignore the past for a second, Marley has actively been colonizing people for 100 years. They are at war with plenty of countries and you mean to tell me that no one, not a single country would want to ally with Paradis in order to fight against Marley. Things such as ceasefire and global diplomacy just don’t exist in Aot? Everyone and their mother in the world is against this one small island even tho the people on the island have had no wars and no conflict with anyone for 100 years. For a story that is so incredibly grey the general conflict in the final arc (and the world building in general) is so black and white. And where we previously had a very complex story filled with tragic characters we now have a very one dimensional pov.
And that’s not even scratching the surface of how some fans completely missed the point of Aot and turned into Eren fanboys. Eren and Zeke’s plans are both immoral (Genocide of the whole world vs slow genocide of one race). Like it’s so incredibly tone deaf in today’s political climate with all the very real genocides happening all over the world, for fans to watch this anime about the inevitable conflict of war and how it leads to nothing but suffering, and come to the conclusion that characters like Eren and Floch are 100% in the right.
I sometimes wish that Eren had succeeded in killing all of humanity outside of the walls, only for it all to be for nothing because the people on Paradis would eventually start fighting each other. That’s probably the only way to really show the constant cycle of never ending war and violence. Like, the writing is very messy, but the intention of war and oppression constantly being repeated is so clear (Marley was oppressed for years only to finally gain their freedom and then turn around and oppress other people, the people of Paradis were wrongfully mistreated for 100 years, only to finally gain the upper hand and start mistreating other people instead). I hope not all of you missed the very real parallels of ethnic cleansing when Floch started killing volunteers who had come to their country to help because the Yeagerists wanted to rebirth the Eldian empire.
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