Review of Attack on Titan: Final Season - The Final Chapters

Shingeki no Kyojin is a series that is one of a kind. It's a masterpiece in its own standing and has both excelling writing and visuals to match. Since first watching Eren roll that boulder to cover the wall in season 1, I have followed this anime with much interest as the makers of this anime have dedicated the series to be just as well carefully crafted. I could make an individual review of each season, but I'd rather just make one for this ending. Attack on Titan started with 2 of the strongest seasons in anime without any signs of showing flaws. From thefirst episode onwards, it seems that this anime truly had the love and attention it deserves. The manga knew it was a goldmine, and the anime producers knew that they had a golden classic.

The crazy part is that none of this is too ambitious to write. The anime is truly a 10/10 human work of art despite it's shortcomings.
I would say, the first season is practically a perfect run, as close to perfect as you will ever get. Same with the second season. The third season is where the series begins to show signs of drag and boring segments. Even so, the ending of season 3 went back to a 10, as well as most of season 4. From there, I could only describe that this show really gets confusing in its serial catalogue. Part 1, part 2, final, the finale, etc. Well just say, Attack on titan has seasons 1-5 plus the ending. Yeah, that's a bit easier to group.
From season 4 onwards, this anime shows a mix of both 10/10 masterpiece episodes and 5/10 'meh' filler episodes.
Flaws:
In the end, looking at AOT today, I can still say that as a whole its rightly a 10/10 anime. But the flaws are always going to be the plot writing. I have a theory that the creators thought about the start and end, but only partially. Like, they gave a few hidden foreshadowing in the beginning, but the end was mostly improvised. It wouldn't be too outlandish as this is primarily a shounen anime where cool stuff happens first and writing/ plot comes second. Like, remember in the early seasons the plot was the titans are a result of a supernatural 'girl meets devil' story to later be 'titans are actually people' story? Yeah, I remembers.

All I'm saying is that I think people give the creators too much omnipotent credit when they could have easily just changed the story to shape the ending during production. The start and ending of Attack on Titan is almost a literal reflection that MAYBE there was some recons that happened.
This is why some later episodes felt flat, because it just seemed like the creators started a big action story, and later decided how to fill those gaps in the plot. They did this by having characters, like LEVI, that lose their individuality and just unite to fulfill the main plot, introducing new characters just for the sake of a new plot(the Marleyans), how they forget about Annie's crimes, how they introduce the royal family, how they just keep giving Eren more and more powers as the Attack titan.

If you asked me, I'd say the charm of Attack on Titan ended with Reiner and Bertolt's secret on the wall. Sure, it led to the most intense part of Season 2, but man did it burst a balloon with the main plot. After that, the main story seems to spiral into further and further "but wait actually" moments that felt like cheap recons in consistency.

This is an anime about 3 main protagonist, that eventually become dull and empty vessels for the main plot. This anime is awesome to watch, but ultimately even the best shows can be sullied by poor direction. Even so, this anime is a unique masterpiece.