I agree, Jean. That’s how I’ve felt about this entire show.

Best part of the episode was the story in the commercial break eyecatch. That’s just sad. Well and Mikasa stepping on giant Annie’s head was cool.

Last week, I’d thought we’d finally gotten past explaining everything obvious and fighting internal struggles over whether to fight or to keel over and die.

But nope! They were just saving all of last week’s exposition and whining to use as flashbacks in this episode! Continue reading Shingeki no Kyojin 24 — Oops, Forgot to Whine and State the Obvious Last Week →

Whoa. What. Just. Happened. Suddenly this show doesn’t suck anymore. Actually, that was pretty darn awesome.

Just in time for it to end… Continue reading Shingeki no Kyojin 23 — Not Everyone’s an Idiot After All! →

This show sure loves to beat us over the head with its themes. Seriously, we get it already. People die in war!

So the people have a choice: they could all go hide under their beds and get eaten by Titans. Or they could fight the Titans and possibly only some of them would be eaten by Titans. This doesn’t seem like a very difficult choice. Continue reading Shingeki no Kyojin 22 — Better a Living Dog Than a Dead Lion →

And… what in the world?!!! We actually get a good episode of Titan this week? I never expected this. Maybe it has to do with the fact that they stopped explaining the long range scouting formation over and over again and actually made stuff happened.

Finally all that crap about trusting your teammates pays off, when Eren trusts them and they all immediately proceed to die. Still not worth all the heavy-handed emphasis they put on this theme… And his team would have died either way so no big deal, but I assume Eren won’t see it that way. Continue reading Shingeki no Kyojin 21 — Finally Something Happens →