Review of Attack on Titan Season 3

This season is a real improvement over the last one. I feel it’s a little bit arbitrary to review just part of a season (or even seasons as part of a show for that matter), but what can you do. About the first third of the episodes had a fast pace but the later two thirds were slower. I like to take my time, and to have time, to digest everything that’s happening instead of being bombarded with new and possibly incoherent information. So it’s fine on the whole, but I would have liked it if the earlier episodes were a bit slower. Following isa rapid fire of small things that annoyed me when watching the show, without spoiling anything with too much detail. Almost the first thing that happens in the first episode is that Levi manages to deduce exactly when, where and how something is going to happen just before it does happen. This obviously looks kinda cool but it’s unrealistic and dumb. Tricking the audience by showing something that didn’t happen should be forbidden. Also discovering that a person is a fraud is obviously a big deal for the characters, but for the audience that has barely seen that person it isn’t much of a reveal.

Why did Eren’s memories return when two people placed their hands on his back? This time the deus ex machina is obvious when Eren actually finds a bottle containing superpowers. Does this show even care anymore? But I guess it’s not one because he secretly trained to achieve those powers. Ah, that’s fine then. Not. Mikasa is still cool when she’s not obsessing over Eren, too bad that’s all she does. How can anyone call her a real character? She possibly develops in the coming seasons, let’s hope so.

But this season isn’t just filled with small annoyances. It explains a lot of things that were still left unexplained from the previous two seasons. And the explanations aren’t totally unreasonable. This gives me hope that it will continue to evolve into something more cohesive and interesting. This was the season which finally made me interested in the world by actually giving some backstory to it instead of just hinting at one.