I understood Ymir’s choice to save Reiner and Bertolt instead of rejoining the Survey Corps to be with Historia-because she knew their “hometown”, and she probably knew the consequences they would have to suffer for going back empty handed and failing a mission, whatever that mission is, and she’s repaying a debt to them for taking away one of their friends. Ymir’s a much better person than she’s ever given herself credit for, and I’m amazed by how far she’s grown. One of the most perplexing things about her that I now connected is how often she reiterates how selfish and self-serving she is when every single major decision she’s made (that I remember) has been for the sake of someone else. Throughout this season, Ymir has been one of the most difficult characters for me to understand a lot of her choices didn’t make sense to me on face value.
“In that moment, I couldn’t understand the motivation behind Ymir’s action.” – I couldn’t tell who said this, since it was a voice over.
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Now, having seen that head swerve, I hope the series gives us an answer because whether you’re rooting for them or not, a response like that to a confession like that is a whole can of worms they’ve opened. And when that was all there was, you can make the argument that because those feelings were technically never out in the open in canon, it doesn’t have to end up part of the story. One of the great things about Mikasa and Eren’s relationship is that up until this point, it can be interpreted as purely platonic. Like what Narutodid with Naruto and Hinata, or so I’ve heard…), I’m kind of ticked that they brought it up in the first place. On the other hand, because I know they’re never going to address this issue due to the nature of the genre (unless there’s going to be a sequel taking place in some far future where Mikasa and Eren suddenly got married. Why not? The world is a complicated place and so are human feelings. On one hand, I get that romance don’t generally have a place in most shounen anime.
Second of all, I don’t know how I feel about it as an audience member invested in the overall story. This episode is like eating a really good, but rather small slice of cake. I thought the episode was going to conclude the season on a higher note than rehashing certain information that are beyond clear by this point and ending with a zoom on the Beast Titan, whom we know far too little to really get the true impact of the terror he’s supposed to convey. I thought when Eren accidentally discovered his new power of controlling normal titans that there was going to be more happening than just the Survey Scouts retreating back to the safety of the Walls-although to be fair, that was the smart thing to do under the circumstance. I wanted to see a fight between Reiner, Bertolt, and Eren of Season one Eren-Annie proportion. To be honest, “Scream” seems more like a setup episode than a finale episode, but it may just be me having been spoilt by the epic showdowns typically expected of season finales on western television.
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