Review of Attack on Titan

This anime is popular for a reason, its flashy, the animation and music are great, the fight scenes are stylish and on the surface level it seems really cool. With that out of the way, I HATE this anime, when I was watching it I literally wanted to punch my screen. The First thing that pissed me of were some of the characters, most of them are mediocre to slightly interesting, but some are awful. The main character is alright, but Mikasa is a cold soulless husk created so that the writers could have someone to kill a titan if they need it. Armin isAWFUL, anytime anything gets even a little bit tough he literally falls on the ground and starts screaming about how he "can't do it", and ends up getting like 3 people killed in the process. This might be ok and completely believable if he did this a couple of times, but he spends the whole show doing it. I've never hated a character more. The rest of them are pretty generic tropes like most anime, but some have a couple interesting things about them. The dialogue is a joke a lot of them time, I understand that these people have seen some shit and are facing death, but COME ON. Most of it is people standing around, complaining, yelling, arguing, and accusing each other of stuff. Meanwhile, everyone around them is dying and they just start arguing about nothing. Not to mention the insane freak out moments where they streak the animation and shake the screen around. It was INFURIATING. But that's not all, next we have the story. I admit that the original premise is interesting, but they spend little time on it. Most of the story is about humans attempting to do something and then failing horribly. You know how in comics and stuff the good guy always wins, and so you never actually feel tension for the situation? This show is the exact opposite, the good guy always loses, they literally can't do anything right. If somebody gets in a bad situation then you know they are dead. Even worse, the writers pull like anti-deus ex machina stuff out of nowhere just so that the humans will lose. So even if things seem alright, nope, somebodies probably going to die. The soldiers are completely useless and die all the time, except for a few badass type characters who fly through titans like nothing. The pacing is terrible, with the first few episodes flying by and being really interesting and then nothing happens for like 7 episodes. By the end of the anime you have learned NOTHING about ANYTHING interesting in the story. They present to you a couple of mysteries in the show that you think will be interesting when they get to them, but they don't even try to progress to some and the writers come up with a way to crush any efforts to get to others. The only reason this show gets a 4 is because the production was very good, but damn this show did nothing but make me angry after the first few episodes. Proceed with caution.