Review of Attack on Titan

1. The premise. Humans were almost exterminated by titans, now living behind a wall, wall suddenly gets destroyed, mother of MC is kill. So far, so good. Now while this does look like an interesting premise for a proper war drama at first it suffers from the fact that there are titans. Which makes the whole thing quite fantasy like. That aside, the premise, which could have been used to give the characters, y'know, more depth or something by making it longer than two fucking episodes, set up an interesting start for the series. 2. Story Everything that followed was utter crap. 2 episodes in and a timeskiphappens. Great, because we all love timeskips so much. They give you the chance to completely change the personality of any character at any given time because "timeskip".
A good timeskip would be something like: "I hate you -> I hate you but I partly understand you thus I refuse to do something with my hate"
A bad timeskip is something like this: "I hate you -> I still hate you lol"
SnK is a good example of a bad timeskip. The characters didn't gain any kind of depth through it and basically remained as one-dimensional as they were.
Now back to the main issue, the actual story.
The pacing was extremely fast at first but then it slowed down so much that it felt even slower than your average slow paced show.

Now what does slow pacing in an action centered show mean? Right, IT GOES NOWHERE. They spent roughly 8 episodes for one arc and used 5 minutes to recap everything. Not only that but nothing in the story, which is supposed to be about a war drama or something, which COULD happen to our dear MC-kun gives you a feeling of danger because ever since episode 5 everybody knows he can transform into a titan and is basically invincible.

3. The CAST
Let's save the best for the last.
Most characters were forgettable.
Not just forgettable but uber-forgettable. Because they didn't have any personality or only a screentime of 10 minutes. Now when 5 people die in a titan attack and someone screams "GUNTHER DIED" you wonder which one of these samefaces was Gunther. Same goes for this one girl who wanted Levi's D. Petra, was it? She had a screentime of 10 minutes, she cared about Levi and died an episode or a few minutes later while thinking about Levi. How sad, right? This, my dear friends, is forced drama.

But what would an anime be without a main character or a group of main characters?
They were UNDERWHELMING.
Eren was supposed to be given character development throughout the series but it never happened. He was just ... there. "GOTTA KILL THE TITANS" is how you could describe him. Or in a single word; anger.
Mikasa is the beauty which is looking out for Eren and is willing to kill anyone who'd harm him without a second thought. Because he saved her life once. Understandable but doesn't give you the right to make "Protectiveness" her defining character trait.
Armin is the brain of the group and goes from incompetent to somewhat competent. Arguably the only good character in the whole fucking show and even he is not all that good.

4. Animation and sound.
Top-notch.

Conclusion:
Entry-level anime for those who search for something cool like titan killing kids flying through the city.
It's Spiderman just with wires instead of spiderwebs. And air-battles.
And edgyness.

Final verdict:
5.5/10, a bit better than average but still not as good as people make it out to be.