anime only aot fan since 2013 here 🙋🏻 when i saw the ending, i thought, "people hated this so much? this?" it was the only fitting ending i could think of for the series. and i'm glad the reaction for the anime ending was overall very positive. feels like a very heartwarming closure for both the series and the fandom. i think aot will always be my most favorite piece of fiction. but if you could change things about the ending, what would these changes be?
Hey, got into it through the anime as well, but pretty much almost immediately caught up with the manga.
I think about at ep 7/8 airing?
2013 was a time. Anyone remember all of the op 1 memes?
As for changes to the ending, remove the entire Historia pregnancy subplot all the way through the ending.
It's pointless and destroys one of the best characters in the story.
Make her a part of the action just like everyone else, just like what her character arc was about – becoming her own person and putting behind her passive facade.
I think her friendship with Eren was one of the best parts of the Uprising arc.
And this reversion of her character isn't even fully explained.
She goes against the status quo by giving in to the status quo?
In hindsight, especially, pretty much everything to do with her serves no purpose.
If her royal blood is an issue to the plot, I can think of many other ways of restricting her than pushing a pregnancy on her and essentially removing her voice.
Make the pregnancy fake to just trick the incompetent MP and have her join for the final battle at the point where Shadis catches up with the group, for example. That's it.
Her smacking Eren in the cave was great.
A lot of people think Eren's negative character arc isn't done well enough, but to me her reverting to a passive doll is the most puzzling bit of writing.
The most I get out of it is the horror of women being denied their agency in an awful world and a metaphor for the birth of a new world and for all of the work and substance Historia got as a character, that's an awful payoff.
It's so puzzling. Literally everyone else were allowed to keep their character.
That's the one part of the final arc I think 100% sucks.
OG Ymir got a more complete arc than Historia did and she was there for two chapters, not a large swathe of the series.
Annie, Pieck, Gabi, Mikasa. All of the main character girls got to be awesome during the finale and got complete stories.
It's so jarring because I think the series is 90% of the time super solid with character writing.
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