AOT S4E20 - Memories of the Future

watching you watch this years after we all have, with the understanding that the future inheritor of the attack titan (eren) can influence the current possesors (at the time grisha) memories and distort them to change how they act in the present (and ultimately indirectly changing the future) is so fun and interesting haha. Eren as a future possessor essentially saw his entire life play out the way he wanted in to at the start of s1 ep 1. The entire journey was utterly amazing

Eren was an owl from birth.

Her eyes were purple cuz she got taken by the ideology of king fritz, it was explained actually that’s why no other user of the founder tried to use the rumbling

as another show you NEED to watch (no matter if you react to it or not) is Re:Zero!

fun fact, when Grisha was showing Eren the key in episode 1 and telling him he'd show him the basement when he was back from his trip, Grisha was seeing himself in 3rd pov from Erens memory that Eren was sending to the present, through paths. Grisha was basically seeing himself then and there. If you look at the manga chapter 1, you can see grishas speach bubble falter and hesitate.

NATURE VS NURTURE. to understand Eren, REALLY pay attention to him this episode. He was never taught anything, ANYTHING, yet he became what Grisha raised Zeke to be. This is the ultimate nature vs nurture. Zeke was nurtured to ''become Eren'' but it was not in his nature. Eren was nurtured with love and privilages, yet he ached for something beyond. maybe you're familiar with freuds theory about the ego, superego and id?

At the end of the episode Eren allowed Zeke to get what he always yearned for: a fathers love. Grisha could only see Zeke and everything else when Eren was standing infront of him, sending his ''present'' memories to the past but since the time is linear in paths, he revealed the sights to his father in real time. He learned to do this while with Zeke if you rewatch the episode you can tell by how Eren move when they first get a reaction from Grisha.

What a pleasure to watch you experience this.

This episode is where I crowned aot as the coolest shit I've ever seen

this is one of the best tv episodes ever made in the history of ever

NOT SPOILERS: The Owl mentioned Grisha needed to save Armin and Mikasa. He knew this because of the Attack Titan’s power. He saw who they were through Grisha and Eren’s future memories. Grisha could see Zeke because Eren was there watching it all happen. When Grisha embraced Zeke at the end, Zeke clocked that Grisha could see him because Eren was standing behind Grisha with the same POV.

When Grisha sees Zeke for the first time it's because Eren glances down at the picture of Zeke, Grisha and Dina and plants that memory in Grishas mind whilst he's sleeping and then once he wakes up and sees him its through erens perspective of him looking at zeke. The same for at the end you can see Eren looking at Zeke and thats what Grisha is seeing, so hes really hugging thin air but he can see him.

I think i heard someone explain a while back, when Grisha sees Zeke he is seeing it from Erens perspective, through his memories i believe, so he is kinda having outer body experiences, i could be wrong and feel free if any one can correct me but it just adds a bit more clarity rather than ah he can just suddenly see zeke

This has got to be the realest reaction to this episode I've ever seen lol perfectly represents how we all felt during this

I really want to know your interpretation of the reason we keep seeing flying creatures (e.g Butterflies and different variations of birds) being repeatedly shown and highlighted

One of my favourite TV episodes of all time, the emotion, the reveal, the path of story telling! So so excited for this watch along!

The next epsiode is the one you've been waiting for, im so excited. also notice the title ? you clocked it earlier. hope the payoff is everything you dreamt of

After watching this episode, you deserve to have eggs as scrambled as it left your brain. Absolutely loving the reactions, this episode has such amazing and visceral voice acting performances, specifically from the 3 Yeager men

The enjoyment of watching your reaction and analysis and how you put the pieces together is almost as great as watching it for the first time lol

I'm glad you mentioned that. Not every question asked while watching a show requires an immediate correct answer, especially not one like AOT that triggers so many. Sometimes we commenters get that part wrong while rewatching with someone.

You’re in the middle of the 3 run😂

oh i’ve been WAITING for this