Review of Attack on Titan: Final Season - The Final Chapters
To celebrate the end of this phenomenally exhausting series, i would take this chance to finally explain some of the plot points on why i think this series, overall, just isn't good fiction! Firstly, let me just say this: Attack On Titan works wonderfully as a thriller-survival anime. The first three seasons are some of the best and the most original concepts of horror i've ever seen in this medium. But when the infamous "Final Season" starts, then suddenly there's this huge shift of tone: from a grounded, very tactical and scientific approach, into a grandiose, very political and eldritch perspective, this series just falls apart. Mymain criticism is mostly on how Isayama constructed the lore and world building of this series. You could defend it whatever you want, all I'm gonna say is: try to watch the timeline explanation of this series on YouTube, and imagine if Isayama actually started this series from the very beginning of that timeline. There's really no need for that huge shift of tone in the middle of the show, because it is truly just two different stories prematurely stitched together. I would not have as much of an issue with it, if from the very start it was just consistently all about politics. But we all know the main appeal of why we started watching this series, right? and we all know which element is the key to why it became so successful in the first place, right?!!
Once we step into the greater picture of the lore and world-building, things get really sucky and shallow!. Because it's basically just: "Any conveniences that Isayama wants, he will create."
What is the explanation behind the decision of a specific ancient creature, a Hallucigenia, could create Giants?
Why did this fictional giant race suddenly get the privilege of having an "ancestral plain"?
Why Ymir suddenly could decide everything? I mean yeah, it's her body parts. But limiting the age of the titan successor, choosing a specific line of family to get the privilege of controlling, and touching her descendants would lead to activate her grand plans? There's a limit to how much convenience is accepted as a logical thing, even in a fiction!
Why does the so-called "Founding Titan" have the ability of seeing past and the future?
Why the ability of seeing the past and the future, suddenly including the ability to be there physically, not just accessing the memory through a first person POV?
So it's not just seeing anymore then, it's also time travel? Because Eren, if all of this is consistent, should not be able to influence anything to anyone through a mf memory!!!!
Oh, you want the Giants to be easily duplicated? Sure, it could be done through Zeke's bodily fluids.
Oh, you want the giants to be easily summoned? Sure, they're sensitive to your voice, so you just have to shout really loud.
Oh, you want a massive army of Giants to trample the world? Sure, these giant walls actually have giants inside of them. Yeah! Giants could freeze and create a perfect clean concrete!
They also could crystallize some of their body parts, in case you want to trap somebody.
They can also be controlled remotely. As long as it's connected, you actually don't have to be in the main body.
They also could be revived after death. Are you familiar with a particular ninja story who uses a specific jutsu called "Edo-Tensei", to bring back temporary images of all the famous death characters? Sure, the Giants could also do that!
Oh wait, the chosen giant could erase memory as well! Well screw me, they seemed could do practically anything at this point!
All I'm trying to say is: The Final Season, or just the story outside of Paradis Island, is the part when Attack On Titan basically threw all the logical and scientific thinking out of the frickin window!
I don't fucking care anymore! Just take this rumbling of a frustration with a grain of salt!