AOT - The Last Attack Part 1

If you pay attention to the group's reaction to Hange's flailing body falling down, you can see that Armin is the most distraught by it, I believe that is because he knows just how horrible it is to die to titan steam by slowly burning alive... what a song to go along with it as well. Brilliant TV!

Do yourself a favor and now fully dive into all the videos on tik tok about the show, and all the things you may have missed. The symbolism in every season. You will never be done with this show I promise you. I learn something new every year about this masterpiece.

no death has ever rocked me quite like Hange's, even now im in shambles despite how many times ive rewatched it. That music is something else..

Hi I’m on a coach for 3 hours please give me the next part 😩😩

lmao at how excited you are to watch this. I'm 6 mins in at the time of commenting this Edit: Thanks for another excellent commentary. Yeah the final minutes of this feature always get me T_T

Loving these watch alongs! I thought I'd share for you and others who are interested that a youtuber by the name of Korotos Mystery Shack is nearing the end of a massive analysis of attack on titan episode by episode. It's great to go through and find the best episodes and watch a english essay style analysis of the show!

The scene with Hange is real, it’s not what she created, and it’s the same thing Erwin or Hange talked about before “ do you think they are watching us”? It’s because of paths. You will find out

i could not help bursting out laughing when floch was dying and you said “let him go” 😭😭😭

Holy shit is the only correct response to that opening

Finally! 🙌🏽🙌🏽

Someone correct me if I’m wrong but I think the couple in prison during the rumbling are Erens grandparents

I assume its just a vision Hange's mind created when her body is already dead. At least its not an agonising death but actually a pretty peaceful resolution for a character.

The scene with Ymir watching a kid like Ramzi whom she thought Eren was like shows how she’s starting to doubt Eren

Please read all of this. It’s really important to understand Eren and what freedom means for him. Eren is a determinist and existential failure who can only find meaning through external reactions. This is why he idolizes Armin as the embodiment of true freedom because Armin can create his own meaning internally as an existentialist. Eren is also not a nationalist. In fact, his development in Marley revolves around his nationalistic worldview being dismantled and replaced by his individualism. So the determined” here is Eren’s nature. The future is determined because Eren willed for it and he can’t change as a person, but at th same time he feels so guilty about it. that’s his entire dynamic with Reiner is about. It’s recontexulation. His dream was often buried under the more pressing trauma of survival and intense Revenge against the titans that killed him mom. Eren forgot about the dream because of hatred for titans and revenge for mother after s1, but he never forgot about it unconsciously, in chapter 73, he talks about how he envied the look in Armin’s eyes, and after he sees the future memories, he straightens himself out. He admits that they are not his enemies, yet before transforming he says “ I will keep moving forward, until i destroy my enemies” It’s willfull ignorance. His nature overpowers the development he had. He can’t stop himself from wanting it. So, Eren did the rumbling to attain freedom for himself. What does freedom mean to Eren? Well, freedom means attaining that same 'look in his eyes' that Armin possessed and which Eren lacked. This 'look' is existential fulfillment, the ability to create your own meaning internally in a world devoid of it. Eren envied Armin's freedom and wanted to possess it for himself. He considered life inside the walls to be hell, as there's no opportunity for him to implement his curiosity, there is only monotony that drove him to boredom. Eren finds peace boring as there's no excitement with a life devoid of risk and devoid of questions. They are merely cattle who live to die. They are slaves, which is why Eren despises and looks down on those who are content with their pitiful lives within the walls. Eren realized that the outside world would be his sole escape from 'those miserable walls', it would grant him this freedom to explore, this freedom to live his life the way he wanted and enact his birthright. The outside world is a mystery, untouched, ready to be explored without any walls surrounding it, meaning it would finally give Eren the opportunity to find the meaning he is missing in the walls. The unknown is what motivates Eren the most, which is why he's so fascinated by the mystery of the basement and the potential of the outside world. An established world limits possibilities and freedom, but this outside world has infinite potential for freedom in its nothingness. Unlike Armin, Eren is an existential failure that cannot create meaning internally. He can only find meaning externally, through violence and fighting as a form of escapism from his emptiness and as an outlet for his hatred. This escape through violence is ironically the only way Eren can find peace. Eren needs to always find an enemy to 'fight' in order to give his life meaning. Thus, Eren mistakenly believed that the freedom he sought could be attained physically by reaching that empty paradisiacal 'scenery' outside the walls found in Armin's book, and the only way to do this is to eliminate the 'enemies' that obstruct him. Eren reinterpreted the intangible as tangible. He didn't view the outside world with wonder, he fixated on that which was being deprived from him. It was no longer curiosity that drove him, it was pride, envy and hatred. He would grasp it from his 'enemies', those that 'try so steal his his freedom away'. This is what enslaved him, what led to him 'forgetting his dream' (Midnight Sun), what distinguished him from Armin. If he could reach that scenery, that would surely cure his emptiness and he would surely see the same thing Armin sees. Except... freedom does not lie outside the walls. It's just more of the same: already established, already victim to cyclical conflict, already infested with livestock, already filled with 'walls'. The paradise Eren can escape to, the scenery he can lay his eyes on, doesn't exist. Eren's dream is shattered, and thus he's met with extreme disillusionment and disappointment. Armin accepted his dream was a fantasy, he could 'move forward' from it, but Eren couldn't. And so... he 'made a wish'. Eren would create it by 'wiping it all away'. Eren would externalize his voidness and reconstruct the outside world to match his idealized, childish fantasy. And this is what the iconic Freedom scene displays as Eren creates his desired scenery to attain 'freedom'. This is why Eren did the rumbling.

Awesome reaction dude, and your understanding of symbolism and nuances are really impressive for your first watch. Might be my fav reactor so far. This show is extremely special in that watching people react to it is unlike reactions to any other show. I can't wait for you to see the final act.

It was stated in the story that the world would take 50 years to recover their losses from the mini-rumbling. Paradis has the world's best engineers helping them, and their and Hange's prediction was that it would take 50 years to catch up in technology. And yes limited rumbling is possible, founder can control how many titans to sent and when to stop them. The limited -rumbling could be used again and again, and the rest of the world will have no military to retaliate with for at least 50 years, and they would be in no rush to repeat their loss. So what Eren doing is wrong. I am not sure if you caught it, but the reason he’s walking the street saying that I’m gonna kill all of these people because Paradis didn’t find any solution to save themselves “ it’s him deluding himself into thinking because he’s yet to accept his dark nature, and then he saves a child and says future can’t be changed, but after that he finally admits that future can’t be changed because Eren wanted this future, he’s very guilty to have it, but his selfish desire overweights his guilt. Saving Paradis is just him using it as a rationalisation or sort of secondary motive, but his main motive is childish, pathetic that he was disappointed just at mere existence of the humanity, he wanted to be free off Paradis shit and the dream he had with Armin was that the world was untouched without any humans with it, but when he found out the world was full of people, and the fact that they hated Paradis, so it really disappointed him. That’s why he’s changed to his child self to enjoy this freedom and asking Armin that “ have we finally reached it” this scene shows him regressing to his child version to enjoy the freedom and blind to the destruction he’s casing. What he’s doing is childish, pathetic and selfish, and he knows that. That’s why he compares himself to Reiner and says he’s even worse. Because Reiner said he wanted to save the world, but his main motive was to become a hero, and he masked it with his secondary motive, so Eren isn’t really a nationalist and he would have not done the rumbling if he wasn’t selfish.

It’s Mikasa. The scene you are seeing here is in 1st chapter of manga, but anime cut it for some reason. This is supposed to be the scene of ep 1

Did you see who helped Hange up from the ground in the afterlife? That is the same soldier that pushed her into the well and saved her life in season 3. The amount of details for rewatching purposes and/or if you pay enough attention is so incredibly good in this show. I really care about that scene because Hange is my favorite character. I loved your comment during this episode about symbolism. This show is so good at that in detail from season 1 until the end. Keep it in mind. Good luck on the rest of the show.

holy shit i'm so excited for this

So glad you could post one today I needed this

I've been loving these watch alongs but I've noticed you've missed a lot, mainly because you're probably not used to watching anime and you don't recognize the characters while they're in the scene (like when Eren took piecke and Gabi up the stairs to the balcony, porco was in the crowd). But the show does this a lot and I think we all missed it too, because its meant to be that way. This show is meant to be rewatched. If you can't rewath it I would recommend searching the moments and characters that were hidden in the background. My favorite moment is right before Ymir reveals herself as titan it shows Reiner and bertholt about to bite their hands to transform. Absolutely amazing.

damn i wish you had just watched the actual episodes and not the movie but i'm happy to see your reaction to the ending

I appreciate the effort 🤍

seeing your reaction to the first scene is telling me your gonna LOVEEEE your rewatch

AAhhhhhhhh!! Thank you for everything so far, Jamaal! Can’t wait for more to come!

Been on the edge of my seat waiting for this 😬😬❤️❤️

HERE WE GO!!!