Review of Attack on Titan

I know a lot of you will be watching this anime in preparation for the massively hyped final season. So as a TL;DR, my main recommendation is that you watch this anime at 1.5x or 2x speed. It hints at greatness but is ruined by the slow pace and lack of plot development, so watching at an increased speed alleviates the slog. Intense action, gory battles, political intrigue, amazing OST, massive scale, and a bleak and mysterious dystopian future, what could go wrong? Attack on Titan is yet another anime with a potential for greatness ruined by pacing. There's always room for dialogue, monologue, and internal struggle,but the result of these slower moments should be advancement of the plot. Instead, these moments in Shingeki serve to bring the plot to a grinding halt until the character can finish their angsty moment. An entire episode is spent watching the main character sit on his butt figuring out what to do. These moments are not intense, they are painfully slow, and unfortunately they make up a large part of the anime. Now, as long as things come to a resolution eventually, that's not so bad. But an entire season should not be spent on exposition, delayed repeatedly by meaningless monologue.

Not to mention, none of the characters have demonstrated any depth at all apart from a couple side characters. Every character can be boiled down to a one sentence description.

Condense this entire 1st season into 13 episodes and this anime has a potential to be one of the best, but personally I found this 25 episode slog unbearable without watching at 1.5x speed.