I Rewrote Attack on Titan's Ending by Giving Ymir 1 Massive Twist 

Good to know, I'll watch now.

I didn't mind the manga ending, but this is clearly better.

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I didn’t mind the anime ending, but even though this feels a little drawn out for me, HOLY- forget Chekhov’s shotgun, I thought more like Chekhov’s big damn machine gun!

Tbh i thought it was very clever that marley was last in the rumbling. It would make sense that erin would save Marley for last bc they are the ones that started it all. and are responsible for most if not all his anger,hatred,suffering etc. I thought he wanted to let marley know what it would be like when the whole world crumbled around you and not being able to do anything about it but flee. That would directly link rumbling marley as last with erin's world crumbling around him, his mother dying and having to leave shinangshina(shinamshina idk) when the armoured titan collapsed the wall.

You say that like attack on Titan has ever had a happy moments for the most part. I think it makes more sense that she doesn't see it because this world is cruel after all

@@TimothyGodHaving her miss it does not fall into making sense. It falls into the missed opportunity category.

​@@jordanlang5172Yeah and Erwin being in the basement was a missed opportunity then by your standards. Erwin and Hange are my favourite character, and it just makes their deaths even more tragic for me.

@@Amarthie I guess what makes Erwin's death fine is that it wasn't contrived. When Hange dies, it feels pointless. Why not have Mikasa and Levi stay behind, kill a few wall titans, then use the maneuvering gear to make it back to the plane? Mikasa and Levi are Ackerman's, so they can make quick work.

@@jordanlang5172 Even more, why didn't she cover herself in water like they did when fighting Rod Reiss? That definitely would've kept her from burning up long enough to atleast get back on the plane, and even if she was in a state like Levi we would still get her reation to all the previous nine.

Ya i wish that final levi vs zeke fight that was described animated.

gave me chills

Let us not make his sacrifice go to waste

As a reward...

@@jupiter138 king fritz will give him...

@@csam9167 .....his seed

@@toluadejumo8596 His CUM

nah thats realistic fr

​@@Tsuki-Siiinconsistent.

@@jlboss_ps4751 who cares it's a shot

@@Tsuki-SiiEvery shot she took has changed the story.

@@jlboss_ps4751 That's not the point. It's the fact that it's not realistic to always land a shot especially when the target is moving. Or the weapon is heavy af. Don't think anyone cares about consistency shots. Especially from a kid. And nobody would say anything if she missed at least once.

I honestly think the writers just forgot Historia lmao. Even I forgot her. But when she was again shown briefly, I was like "Wait wtf? That's it? Yo, who's even the random bully she banged? Like what's going on here?! Why don't we see anything about her?! Does she hate all of it? Is she fine with some of it?" It's just so detached and far away from Historia. You could say that's "the point", but... I dunno what the point is. Why a bully? What's the purpose there? I think that bully might be more important somehow. Like if Historia marries him eventually, it's a missed political opportunity. Marrying some random farmer? Yeah no... The dude is probably a member of some great family or something, probably a descendand of... Something, anything! Or maybe... Ymir did try to pull Historia out of her martyr complex... But maybe after she couldn't be there for Historia, she fell back into it. This could explain why Historia would basically sacrifice her own desires and life for the machinations and betterment of the world, becoming a silent martyr. Or Historia is actually still doing all of this for Ymir somehow. I dunno, it just feels really weird.

You know not all childhood bullies stay as bullies in adulthood, right?

You are just not intelligent lol neither is anyone who thinks AoT's ending bad. Historia's whole character and a big theme of idea of lack/importance of self agency. Historia always for forced into a role, she wasn't ever able to make her own decisions and neither were her siblings. Her being forced to have a baby always plays into that YET AGAIN. Nothing regarding her character was assassinated. As for the ending you are dumb if the only message you got from AoT's ending is "War amongst humans is inevitable" LMFAO there are so many other ideas that are just as relevant, and fleshed out within AoT and it's characters.

There are many strong hints that in the original story Eren was the actual father of the baby with Historia... But a few months before AOT manga was finished, Isayama decided to change the story - including making Historia's husband to be a random character: probably to reinforce a tragic and sad relationship between Mikasa and Eren.

​@centripetal6157 totally agree, Erens outburst about not wanting Mikasa to forget him was so out of character too and was pretty pathetic to have it waived off as if "this was the true eren all along" when we've hardly ever seen any signs of romance between them but then if you stop and think about historia and eren? You can immediately see why that would be a more likely pairing with everything that's going on in AoT

Same. Started seriously wondering if he's dead.

Lol been patiently checking his channel every month. I've been worried for a while.

He's pretty active on his twitter

​@terrifyingtyrannosaurusturtle yeah but that's twitter so no

Maybe a little lost in the weeds but damn the full picture is awesome!!! It does the thing AoT always does and recontextualizes a preexisting mechanic or point-of-knowledge: "Why does biting your hand / injury turn you into a titan?": because you need to grab the attention of Ymir, (also explains the instances where shifters turn without it, like Eren under the rubble: Ymir would notice that holy shit) "Why does giving the spinal fluid to a eldian do anything at all?" Because its the one body part that can carry the will of shifter. "Why are Ackermans OP?": Because that's what the Attack Titan's spinal fluid does. (This one is S+ because it 1. Recontextulizes the "command" Eren gave Mikasa in the cabin. It didn't force her to do anything, it just activated her (like Zeke's shout). She is free to wield that however she wants. 2. Recontextulizes Mikasa and Levi's attachment to Eren. There is some inate draw to the holder of the Attack Titan that they need to reconcile. Levi with his protectiveness (it more evident in the manga) and Mikasa with the same but ++ her attraction (still her, but the spark was the pull of the AT holder) 3. Sets up UNIQUE SPINAL FLUID PROPERTIES! Beast can do the shift on command, Attack can enhance your abilities, etc. A+ world building on the magic system 4. Gives the visions/headaches all Ackermann see (a plot thread) an in-world explanation: The Attack Titan has the future sight which seems to have an effect on the Ackermann. (Might also be WHY they are so combat effective, because they subconsciously peek the next few seconds into the future ) 5. Syncs up the Attack Titans ability to be able to refuse the king (ymir's orders) with the Ackermann's ability to not be effected by the kings magic (ymir's ability in the paths) ) "Why can they still shift?" Because Ymir wants to see B L O O D. (Instead Mr Eren If-You-Take-Mine-Ill-Take-Yours Jeager, suddenly caring about other's freedoms. yeah yeah, I know about the "He wants to be stopped" bit, but that's is a step down for our protagonist, not up.) "Why do you need a Concrete Goal to shift?" Because to use your abilities, u need to make a request of Ymir with clear intent, so she can action it in the paths. When you get really good, you can make things yourself in the paths (Ymir herself, the king, Zeke, etc) "Why do The Nine have abilities/ are special?" Because Ymir split her soul into them, they have the core ability of "Shape the paths" It's great because it so naturally sets up the solution for The Rumbling: i.e. Make an "intent" in The Paths as a majority of Ymir's soul.

"The Paths Tree Exploit" If this came out, that would have been a meme 110%

I love detailed praise like this that give me a lot to chew on... But how the fuck do I turn it into a thumbnail comment, lolol hang on.

@@Uniquenameosaurus LOL best of luck there, man.

Is it a plot hole that eren couldn't foresee ymir's betrayal? Can't wait to see uniquenameosaurus get out of this one lol. Ymir could have been drip feeding eren information or even deceiving all iterations of the attack titan with curated visions of the future to reach the rumbling. And the attack titans defiance of the founding titan was just an illusion to manipulate them. But even then, she might not have even wanted the rumbling until she heard "you aren't a slave or a god, you're just a person" (which seems like perfect setup for a long and juicy scene of people just taking with ymir btw, sucks the original didn't have it) But, the attack titan's special power is really hard to write around. The kind of thing that is extremely hard to execute unless you have the entire plot figured out and scrutinized before you even start writing. Ie, not a rewrite that Starts when the story is 90% told and wants to maintain multiple aspects of the original. But based on what I have seen I'm sure part 2 will have a satisfying answer. Even though doing so seems impossibly hard to me.

Members of the AOT fandom who watched this rewrite: "The headcanons... The nightmares... They're... Finally... Over..."

I'm just glad I'm not alone in finding the ending confusing and dissatisfying

He really didn't though

@@donovanfaust3227Explain please

@@donovanfaust3227Explain please

Exactly my only point against it, too, though seeing that the mindless titans are really just Eldians who's forced to feed off of humans. I can see how or why Hange's world view strengthen significantly after the cat's out of the bag. She's practically the only one treating Titans, Humans, and any other living beings as what they are.. Living beings.

That interesting! It could also force Levi to give up on his personal revenge story by never giving him a proper final confrontation with Zeke. We could see him grapple with it, then accept. Or if you want the drama, small skirmish where everyone is barley holding Levi back, while Falco tries to break the crystal. Noone wants to kill each other but they all have guns, and blades etc. so it's still tense, one accident and you kill someone. We could then also see what he decides after. His sole motivation is finishing Erwin's command, what does he do after? In the main line he dies shortly after Zeke so we don't know. What's left for him? Could be very powerful to get an answer: "Was this always following-orders, or were you fighting something more?" Does he leave? Does he stay? Why does he stay?

​​@@wezzelinator And as an addition to this addition (I'm surely going to be targeted by the fandom to be publicly burned in a campfire for saying this, but screw it), I think Levi should've died when Zeke blew that Thunderspear close to each other, it would've been better than him becoming Mikasa 2.0, focused on only wanting to kill Zeke!

@@PedroLucas-mg5je In that moment it felt like the perfect tragic end. Levi, inches away from his singular goal, engineering the perfect failsafe to ensure Zeke's cooperation: miss reads Zeke's conviction. I agree that would have been the place to do it. I distinctly remember being slightly disappointed when Hange escaped with Levi: I knew he was going to survive. That felt... Cheap? It didn't feel like the correct choice after what I experienced when the preceding scene played out. Actually keeping him alive can work though. The reason we feel like that was the perfect moment was because after this, there was no new, even better even higher point narratively. Levi just kinda coasted after that, then died after decapitating a Zeke that literally just stood there. No finally confrontation, no grand last stand. No real stakes (if Levi wiffed, someone else would have gotten Zeke). What I am trying to say is: as an author to do this: bring a character back from their narrative climax, implies that author has an even more climactic end-point planned for them. If the author does not deliver, we (audience) can easily find where they should have stopped. Off the top of my head: Double down on the stupidity of his final promise. AoT is at its core a warning of what the cycles of violence look like. What better way to exemplify the "For the honor of my respected superior, you must die by my hands, and ONLY my hands" by making it turn your most beloved badass into a crazy person, driven by madness. (I just figured out why Levi survived here: Thick Audience Armor.)

​​​@@wezzelinator And, if he actually died there, we could even get to see Levi's thoughts about he admitting that letting himself be chained by his vengeful desires and unability to fully heal from his losses and traumas and TRULY move forward from Erwin's sacrifice is what got him killed (which would bring back Kenny's line of everyone being a slave to something) and his only regret in life, before he dies, could be that he never tried to completely live for himself, which would be peak irony!

@@PedroLucas-mg5je you get it! There is potential there, it just needs to be realised!

Omni Man would have proposed during that moment 💍😜

ngl I was checked out by the 15th time they pulled a "oh no a character is about to die!!! oh wait they got saved again". Like a couple of times is fine cuz you need to build suspense and stakes but like 10+ is kinda wild ESPECIALLY for Aot.

I was expecting half the cast to die bruh. Like at least kill off someone like Connie or Pieck (someone's who's not the main character or their development depends on them living like Reiner or Armin)

@@frostman4152 Yea shit got tiring after the 10th time someone was about to die, with every cast member shouting their name and that person suddenly getting saved by some miracle. Generally the final fight did not feel like AoT at all I was expecting there to be some sort of twist explaining the plot armor lol

@@lordtourette6057 it was literally AoT’s version of The Long Night for GoT where no one died in a series known for its lack of plot armor

The magic system was too vague and needed explaining. Also, the manga was wordy as well. And in regards to Eren, this rewrite does not simply define him. Eren even said to Zeke that if someone tried to take his freedom, he would take theirs. So would it not be logically consistent if Eren, who is about freedom, kills his friends to stay alive to be free, regardless of whether he loves his friends? This is not Bleach, where Ichigo keeps saying he is about protecting his friends. From the beginning of the series, Eren was about being free. So, of course, he would choose himself over his friends. Plus, his friends tried to kill Eren to stop the rumbling.

​@@jordanlang5172forgetting the huge "if you want to save Mikasa, and Armin, and everyone else." How can key do that if he kills them?

@@TimothyGod He wouldn't kill them if they didn't try to stop him. He is doing the rumbling for them and for the Eldians in Paradis.

That's not true. Eren made it clear he wanted to live and destroy the titans. Eren even expressed this desire to Armin after saving him from a titan's devouring.

@@jordanlang5172 yeah but during season 3 upon reflecting on his founding power and seeing that there’s no real freedom outside the walls he reflects on feeling the need to do anything to lay his life down for the sake of the freedom of paradis and specifically those of his friends, that’s even why he says he doesn’t try to stop his friends from preventing the rumbling them

Ikr Peak AoT and on par with s4 quality

You were wrong from the start, the original ending is awful

Tbh not just the very end, but basically everything after the rumbling starts. It's just... So boring? Idk Eren as the villain would work better I think if we could actually follow him like Light Yagami in death note​@@ddd-op5wy

​@@Stratilex cmmon light is basic and one dimensional AF This video's eren is phenomenal and not a villian but a soldier of his country

​@@ddd-op5wynot at all. This ending was masterpiece ngl but og end is also good if not excellent

@@amoy5657 I'm not talking about the depth of the characters, but rather how much of them we get to see. I wish we followed Eren more rather than all of s4 being from basically everyone else's perspective

I wish more people were aware of this fact. It cleared up a ton about Eren for me when I first learned this info

@@yuukichan12 Would probably help if the writing towards the end was good enough to make those things clear without necessitating prior knowledge of an entirely different series that never even got an anime adaptation but, eh… that requires too much effort, I guess.

Okay that doesn't make it a good fit for AoT's ending though. Or Eren.

While I love that approach Isayama took with Eren and I do think its very interesting; its just not where Eren where Eren was ever supposed to go. It works for the most part, but overall, Eren in the end does not line up well with who his character, desires, and development.

So in the end Eren becomes genocidal maniac who accomplishes nothing, falls in love with his step sister and gets also cucked. WOW. Peak fiction.

Because stopping the alliance ensured Paradis would not get genocided by the outside world

@@raidenstark4964 yeah, at least it has consequence. without casualties there'd be complaints that our heroes just "happen to have everything go their way" instead..

The way to save everyone they proposed in V7 was just “give us more time” and by the time they thought of the portal plan ironwood was already firmly against him. They didnt have a super solid plan the whole time in their back pockets.

Nah Ironwood’s logic with the nuke made sense at least at first because from his point of view, those people are already good as dead. Think of it like a trolly problem but all the people on one side of the trolly have brain cancer. At least that’s how Ironwood saw it, and based on the recent volume 9 epilogue, he wasn’t completely wrong. Now everything that happened with Ironwood after he got knocked out by Winter, Oscar, et al? That was the nonsensical dumb part.

bro watches rwby

@@blackroadnewcountry I got news for you friend. The literal first ever RU-vid video on this channel you’re currently watching was about RWBY.

Absolutely agreed. I loved how they were handling Ironwood at first but then they just went the full demonization route... I agreed wholeheartedly with Ironwoods plan in the show. Mainly because he was the only person who actually HAD a plan... if Rwby didn’t get utterly lucky with the staff and teleportation convenience. Then Atlas and Mantle would have both died alongside everyone with it. Even then most everyone did die. Unless the writers were planing on being unrealistic even more and saying two whole cities population somehow managed to get through them. (Something impossible and factually most of them would have died anyways... their people who lived in winter climate moving to the middle of a desert... most would die from heatstroke and thirst before Vacuo could have ever mounted any sort of support) Overall just glad Rooster Teeth went under... they butchered Monty’s dream enough and I was sick of their childlike writing style. It was fine for the first seasons and fit. But as the story took a “supposedly” darker tone. They never adapted to the changing narrative. Real shame...

Lol, I know that fuckin feeling. Interesting being on the other side of it for once.

​@@Uniquenameosaurusas a creator (of some sort) myself I relate but I imagine not to the extent of a 2hr hyper niche topic video essay

But it's cheap. She dies because she just had to die. That does not make it really good.

@@jordanlang5172 Nah it did not feel forced. Gabi moments feel forced.

@@kintsugi3932 I didn't say forced. I said cheap. Also, what Gabi moments felt forced? I can't think of anything off my head right now.

@@jordanlang5172 CHEAP AND YET SEE NO GABI ISSUES? Gabi is memed as faze for a reason. She always hits her most bullshot shots to move the story forward lmao.

@@kintsugi3932I didn't say Gabi didn't have any issues. I said I couldn't think of any at that moment. Yes, her moments are dumb as well. Realistically, she shouldn't have been able to land every shot. It does not make sense, just like it didn't make since for Hange to stay behind. Why not have Levi and Mikasa stay behind? They could have easily killed a couple of wall titans. If they kill a few, it will cause the other wall titans to be blocked by the corpses of the dead wall titans, allowing Mikasa and Levi to make it back to the plane.

But that was not in Armin's plan he needed to be the Hero that stopped Eren.

Erwin would have lost all motivation since his dream would have been revealed from Bertholt's memories and the Basement.

@@Patriarch.ChadimusNope

@@ExpertContrarian Yes.

@@ExpertContrarian Patriarch.Chadimus is definitely right, that's what would have happened if Erwin survives

Preach wabbit

Eren has the complete power of the founding titan. Thus, he has the complete power of the war hammer titan. That’s how in the final battle, he was able to summon multiple titans with the war hammer ability. It’s very believable that he could have used the war hammer power to create odm gear.

We saw the Warhammer make a crossbow. That alone is somewhat mechanically-complex. But regardless, if Eren is able to go into paths whenever he wants, making something like this is completely plausible if he can spend the time to practice or look into past memories to see how it worked (i.e. Training Arc when the mechanics of it were explained to them).

Dude this is the same series where there's an imaginary ghost world only certain people can have access to. This is the same series with a big worm guy that somehow was the reason titans were made. There's more ridiculous things that have happened than this lol

This is just wrong and rewriting history. Isayama said he came up with the "mist" ending in the beginning when he didn't know or not if AOT would be dropped or not.

Look at what's on screen 6:11 to 6:22. Isayama himself is proving you wrong here, with quotes ranging from early s3 to s4 (relative to the manga) showing that Eren never loved Mikasa, and that Mikasa's pining over Eren he at one point recognized was incredibly toxic. And if you were to consider the many things that he didn't even talk about or show in his video, like the manga originally planning Historia to be Ymir's chosen one rather than Mikasa, shown by Isayama constantly paralleling them and drawing scenes where they look nearly identical or are doing the same things throughout the manga, it would become obvious that all the ending had that he originally planned eas the concept of the victim becoming the aggressor. (Oh and Historia being Ymir's chosen one is also supported by interviews with Isayama where he talks about her being his favorite and most significant character)

@@AL-kc1nb 1. [Look at what's on screen 6:11 to 6:22. Isayama himself is proving you wrong here, with quotes ranging from early s3 to s4 (relative to the manga) showing that Eren never loved Mikasa] - Nothing here would suggest Isayama claimed Eren never loved Mikasa. That's just your interpretation because you hate Mikasa and ship Eren with Historia so therefore you'll perceive Mikasa's feelings towards Eren as toxic as a result but see Historia as a perfect love interest for Eren. Shipping truly has ruined the aot fanbase. What makes matters worse is the fact that some of you Eren&Historia shippers actually believe Eren really did hate Mikasa smh. It just never ends, it's like with Mikasa&Eren shippers who believe Eren was trying to manipulate Historia or threatened her when he offered to erase her memories. It's so frustratingly a bias and misguided perception of the scenes. 2. [and that Mikasa's pining over Eren he at one point recognized was incredibly toxic.] - This is not true either. Their relationship has never been seen as toxic. The only thing the story ever questioned was Mikasa's perception of Eren's characterization and whether he has changed or has he always been this way. Again, everything Mikasa does to you people it will always be seen as toxic just because she killed Eren and Eren declared his love for her instead of Historia. 3. [And if you were to consider the many things that he didn't even talk about or show in his video, like the manga originally planning Historia to be Ymir's chosen one rather than Mikasa. shown by Isayama constantly paralleling them and drawing scenes where they look nearly identical or are doing the same things throughout the manga, it would become obvious that all the ending had that he originally planned eas the concept of the victim becoming the aggressor] - People misunderstood so much of Mikasa's role towards Ymir, so I'll explain that first cause it'll important to me addressing your claims. - Eren and Mikasa played different roles when it comes to how they freed Ymir. Eren freed Ymir from her enslavement to all the royal blood descendents that caused her to be struck in a loop of continously doing the bidding of Fritz name even beyond the grave. And Mikasa liberated Ymir from her psychological bondage to king Fritz that caused her to mistake servitude for love (Mikasa even tells her what she had wasn't love but a nightmare). Despite Ymir and Mikasa being in similar positions of loving someone who wants to cause pain to the world (admittedly for different reasons), Eren and Mikasa are not a parallel to king Fritz and Ymir, Eren and Mikasa are the "antithesis" of them (the liberators of ymir rather than the enslavors of her). Hence why Ymir becomes vexated upon seeing the final decision Mikasa was gonna make. She wanted to see if Mikasa would either join Eren in the end and become no different from Ymir herself, or was she going to kill Eren and show Ymir that despite her "love" for king Fritz, she could've allowed him to die and as a result finally be freed from that Nightmare she called "love" (shown by her what if memory of her hugging her children after allowing Fritz to be killed). That's the kind of freedom Ymir was shown by "Mikasa" vs In "Eren". Both freed her in different ways. In fact, I would argue Armin also played his role in Ymir's choices and showed her a different kind of perspective, but that's for another conversation. This bring me to my point. The manga never planned for Historia to be the "savor" of Ymir. Otherwise the story wouldn't have made Historia implicit in Eren's actions, but instead go against Eren, a decision Ymir wasn't able to make against King Fritz. If Historia had killed Eren or prevented him in some shape or form, she could've served as a parallel that became an amazing antithesis to Ymir, but as we've seen from the story, despite her disagreement of Eren's actions, she still chose to do nothing to stop him just as Ymir did nothing to stop King Fritz, therefore becoming "the worst girl in the world" no different from Ymir herself. Historia and Eren shippers tend to romanticize that line while choosing to remain ignorant of its implications. It's precisely because Historia is a parallel to Ymir that couldn't have been what Ymir was looking for, she wasn't looking for a clone of herself, but rather a contrast of someone who could show her differently despite similar predicaments. Mikasa is Ymir's foil while Historia is water to a fish. Both Historia and Ymir were followers of men who sought to cause pain to the world while Mikasa's decision to kill someone whom she's loves, allowed her to break the cycle, while Historia and Ymir didn't. That's why Mikasa and Ymir's themes of love is an important factor to both their characters but also one of the important closers to an overall narrative, because if every character in a story was capable of doing a good thing despite their obsession with their own ideals or the people they love, the cycle of hatred would've long been broken. Which is funny because ending haters love Eren Kruger and yet he also believed "love" was the only way to stop history from repeating itself, that's also the last thing he asked of Griesha, to not abandon the love he has in his heart, and use it to protect the ones he loves (which I feel he was also indirectly talking to Eren). So yes you're right. Historia was a parallel to Ymir, but Mikasa was an antithesis of Her, hence why she was capable of liberating her instead of Historia. But unfortunately the aot Fandom's hatred of Mikasa runs so deep that it makes people obtuse to her characterization. 4. (Oh and Historia being Ymir's chosen one is also supported by interviews with Isayama where he talks about her being his favorite and most significant character) - Again, why do you guys love to misconstrue Isayama's interviews to suit your own narrative. Historia was Isayama's favorite back in season 2/3 because he was asked how he felt about her, that's why he also said she would be important later, referring to her role in season 3, not 4 or the ending. In fact, Isayama has many favorites in the story depending on the arc the story is currently in. At one point Sasha was Isayama's favorite because he said she was the fun and annoying person that everyone wanted her around, he also said she helped balanced the tone of the series. Reiner was also Isayama's favorite at one point too, and Eren was as well. The point is his favorite character constantly changes depending on the arc the story is. Just because Historia was Isayama's favorite at one point doesn't mean she was the chosen one. In fact, Aot as a story is a constant deconstruction of the "Chosen one" trope/narrative, but that's for another topic. What role exactly did you want Historia to play in Ymir's story? Cause that would require the story to change everything rewarding her story in season 4 even before the ending. And please don't give me the "Ymir Reincarnate as Eren and Historia’s child" argument. I'm begging you.

​@lorcejay2596 good job strawmanning lmao. I've never said I believe Historia and Eren should be a thing, in my comment on this video I specifically said the only thing Eren should have loved is freedom, for more reasons than just Isayama's self-described lack of ability to write any sort of romance. And you're wrong btw, Isayama's quote specifically proves that Eren does not love Mikasa. "He's only sees her as a mother figure". Let's think about what that means for a sec. First of all, he views Mikasa as a mother figure. Someone who watches over him, and heavily implies he does not like her any other way because that would be weird. Second of all is the "only". Referring to their relationship. He ONLY views her as a mother figure. Try headcannoning your way out of that one lmao.

Oh and second, Mikasa staying stuck on Eren being toxic isn't my own opinion (although I do agree with it), it's what Isayama himself was saying in the quote on screen! "It would be very sad for Mikasa to stay wanting Eren through the whole series", along with a bit more. And regardless of that quote it's possibly the most toxic relationship I've ever seen in a show that (at least according to the fanbase) isn't supposed to be viewed that way. She never understood his ambitions, motivations and his struggles nor did she try. Her and Eren never had a meaningful conversation throughout the entire series, like Eren often had with Armin or other characters. I would say that even Eren's rival Jean understood him way better than Mikasa ever could as we have seen on the instances where Jean would explain Eren's behavior to the others, including to Mikasa. Mikasa simply "loved" Eren because he saved her from the thugs and he became her hyperfixation ever since. That's not real love, and would be better described as infatuation/obsession at most.

From what I understand it looks more like the power activated of they showed a strong act of loyalty, maybe away to say that they freely choose who they want to follow (if that's the case) and are under any royalty order just "because"

@@daeith1233 Nice man. Thank you.

"What if the Force-Of-Nature you invoked to end the world, didn't want to stop?" Genie's out of the bottle, you promised retribution for Ymir, freeing her from her mental chains, now you need to deal with her having that free will, and those chains aren't going back on...

Yeah believing Eren doesn't want to commit the Rumbling and is instead entirely forced into it by his tragic environment is probably one of the most boring interpretations of his character. Isayama even has Eren in the Highschool castes AU dreaming of zombie apocalypses and contemplating causing an apocalypse to make his life less boring. Eren is a character that strikes a delicate balance between being a person who cares deeply for his loved ones while also undeniably having a very twisted side of himself with violent impulses. And the ending is majorly defined by how his multiple motivations contradict each other.

This is just flat out a headcanon

​@@ddd-op5wyno you just didn't read it carefully

​@@loganshalloe5927Eren literally decides to kill his friends in the end in this rewrite. How exactly is Unique ignoring his selfishness?

@@ddd-op5wyIf this is headcanon then TRULY I want you to tell me what the point of him turning into a child during the freedom scene was. Even better, what was the point of his conversation with Ramzi.

Part 2 has already been out for almost a month, you don't have to wait for it.

This is my headcanon now

Love this comment, ❤❤❤

Man I wonder what your thoughts on part 2 are.

How would these details ruin the moral themes? Your saying that Eren's death is closure because he wanted freedom? Are you saying that if a black slave wants freedom, they should die to escape the cycle? If not, then what are you talking about? Are you talking about the idea of freedom? Eren is not a slave to freedom because he wanted to kill his enemies, which is no different than a slave wanting to kill their masters. Eren's feeling of wanting to be free from his oppressors is a universal theme. Wanting to be free does not make you a slave to freedom. Wanting to be free is the goal, the desire, and for his desire to come true, he had to rumble the world. Genocide is bad; we know that. But this is a story that focuses on a hypothetical, which the rewrite was telling you. Your right. Eren loved his friends, but he also said to Zeke that he would fight for his freedom when others threatened to take it, which the rewrite also says. So your saying that Eren allowing his friends to have their powers was what he wanted, because it would allow them to stop his plan? The video explains it. I'm starting to believe you didn't watch it. You honestly think the morals of the story fit better in the original? Did you even see the second part of the rewrite?

​@@jordanlang5172yea, sorry, but og all the way

Also Zeke never wondered "Why did Grisha give you the Titan when he just told me to stop you", he said "Grisha gave you the Founder even though he has no way to know you'd be able to use it, that means you showed him something from the future to prove you could"

This is something im genuinely confused on. During the memory trip with Eren and Zeke, Grisha says something along the lines of "i've seen some of Erens future memories, but why won't he show me everything. From here on out, only Eren will get his way. What humanity is about to endure is far worse than anything I ever could have imagined." This is saying that Eren showed him some aspect of the rumbling, we don't know exactly what but Grisha clearly understands that Eren will activate the rumbling. Then, Grisha proceeds to tell Zeke to stop Eren. So, Grisha clearly had a change of heart at the destruction that Eren has caused with the rumbling. But then later he still ends up giving the Founder/Attack Titan to baby Eren. Which already doesn't make sense but maybe he just had an "in the heat of the moment" decision to still give Eren power. BUT THEN AGAIN, in the last episode, we see that Grisha takes back control of his Attack Titan (Which also how/why does this work?) then helps ARMIN and the gang instead of EREN. Like am I missing something or is he just not written consistently in the last episode?

@@frostman4152 either he's written inconsistently in the last episode or him giving eren the founder was simply a heat-of-the-moment impulsive decision after carla's death that he'd regret immediately after. same way he helped fulfill eren's wish then immediately regretted it by asking zeke to stop him. grisha's character largely has to do with giving into rage, even if momentarily.

@@PhulaTrox hmmm, it’s just odd. He helps Eren by killing Frieda, then tries to stop Eren when he learns of the Erens usage of the rumbling then he helps Eren when the wall Maira falls by giving him the founders power then he stops Eren by helping the Alliance in the last episode. Just seems so wishy washy. Also Grisha willingly gave baby Eren the founders power KNOWING he activates the rumbling. So it’s like “they killed Carla so all of them must die”, that’s the rationale? Also, do you know why he had the ability to possess his attack titan in the last episode? I never really understood why he and Bertolt and Marcel had that ability.

@@frostman4152 yeah it is quite messy. the ghosts in the last episode were really lame his rationale for giving eren the founder made sense since we know he had that part of him inside him (which is why he was able to be convinced into killing frieda) + him having eren's memories would mean he'd also partly share eren's emotions. so carla's death was more of a last straw type thing as for the ghosts i assume that the past shifters ymir used were husks but were still connected to their users through paths. so the users had to be "awakened" (by zeke/armin here) for the shifters to act on the users desires. and also new titans like grisha and kruger's attack titans could be summoned the same way ymir summoned the past shifters like bertoldt for example. something like that.

Given your critique, I'm really curious to see your reaction to part 2 when it comes out.

Thoughts on part 2 of the rewrite?

@@hollowhenry04 They're on the part 2 video

Well eren is sad pathetic and overly wrathful all manga, so his development is coherent

"Speak for yourself" Proceeds to speak for yourself. His point was that there were people who did, he didn't specify you.

I disagree with the notion that Eren can't die or he has to be right for a satisfying story. There are tons of stories where the hero is wrong by the end that's satisfying and well...Thanos was wrong in Infinity War.

@@michaelbaiden1308 Have you watched part 2?

Fucking exactly, eren was like that from the very start

LOL So you really think he is a 1 dimentional character. "He always thought that so he did that because he always thought that."xD How the fuck can you accept this shitty explanation? Where is his character growth? Are you telling me that if Marley made peace with Eldia he would've rumbled 80% anyway? The explanation of "the world was not the same he saw in that book" is one of the worst ever. He is not talking literally, when he stayed in Marley he realized there is good people and bad people, exactly the same that happens in Paradis. And if people of Paradis wanted to survive against the rest of the world the Rumbling is the only solution. (And let's not forget that when he talked to Ramzi he realized that the future can not be changed, so he was accepting that he can not control something that is going to do in the future, not knowing the real reason why yet) No one wants to kill billions of people, even the most psycothic person in the world would be hesitant to do this. Do you know why Eren as a child killed 2 of the kidnappers of Mikasa? Because he has the guts and the sense of justice to risk his life to save innocent people. If he was a psycho because potato, he would've killed his bullies too, but he didn't. You know why? Because he is not that bad. I still can not believe there is people defending this bullshit ending we had, it baffles me... And I left behind a lot of conveniences like for example, Gabi never missing a shot, Falco being able to use his FLYING titan perfectly ath his first try, the jaegerists being stupid enough to not blow up the ship or the airplane (only two vehicles that are needed to arrive where Eren is), the alliance surviving against thousands of titans, and more crap.

​@@Lumigle the complexity is not in Eren himself, but how he and the audience decipher and accept his true motivation as the story progresses. Digging past the layers of obfuscation, even obfuscation in his own mind, is a fascinating way to write a character. It is the mystery of S4, now that the previous main mystery (the basement) was revealed. Your idea of Eren is that his words at the ocean scene are his entire motivation, which would demolish this mystery of S4.

Personally I think this eren can work with yours. Infact, i think he is a more emotionally mature Eren. Both Erens truly believes they've fighting for their people and familes but, when multiple people point out their means dont justify the ends this one stops pretending. No more excuses no more putting on faces no more ignorance to the events around him. He figures out the instinctiual thinking he had since he was a child; I will always put myself and my desires before others something so simple that he is content with and accepts while also shamelessly fighting for because he was fine with who he was. This Eren cracks the puzzle of who he is and is find with the way it looks because it looks exactly how we wanted to be.

@@loganshalloe5927 Your looking to hard to find mysteries. Not everything is a mystery.

If this was the original ending, the story would have 150 to 200 chapters instead of 139!

Agreed, and I think Eren creating pillars inmediately after gainning the armored power to escape the Reiss chappel is way to convinient too. I think this was bad decision by Isayama

@@Lumigle I meant in relation to the bird transformation, not the hardening scene. Now that you mention it though, that was a little miss handled... Could have done with a restructure. Very hype scene, would hate to loose it, just at minimum point at the thing, with reis e.g. "we have a collection of serums here actually, they can be used to make shifters stronger, we are planning on using it on Historia. They are very valuable. See this bottle? It's yours! We are gonna use to turn Historia! How poetic.

@@wezzelinator Yes, I know you were talking about Falco, I just wanted to add another example of convenience that we had before in season 3 xD Falco being able to fly perfectly at his first try evading everything that the titans throw at him is hilarious xD

@@Lumigle xD Yeah it stretches the limit a little... I still really like the flying Titan! It's so hype! It should just be handled with care to keep it from jumping the shark. Its plausible that the Titans have some inate instinct that could help. We see all the abnormal shifters generally "get" their titan's movement, the Jaw can monkey around the first time Falco shifts, the cart's quad seems to be inate too? Maybe you could show off Falco's inexperience? Have him comment on how different flying is or how glad he is that flying as the Titan is less flapping and more gliding (you could even give him a limitation in that he struggles with agile maneuvers so he can only do straight passes as Uniq's flying base). Keep the Titan, while acknowledging and embracing Falco's inexperience!

Falco was named so he can be falcon That's the otherwise of out of nowhere

...what are you talking about dude? What we got with the original ending was a Marvel-esque plot filled with childish writing, plot armor, nonsensical dialogue, and an incredibly huge amount of plot holes that are objectively true. Considering the story from Seasons 1-3 actually shows the ending was *not* what Isayama intended, and if you even watched the video you commented on you would know this to be true. He literally brings up interviews and storyboards from Isayama that show the original final panel and theme, which wasn't what we got whatsoever, and more importantly interview quotes that prove the ending was a retcon. Here's my favorite: "Eren *only* views Mikasa as a mother figure", the interview done when Isayama was about halfway through Season 3. That aside, there's tons of foreshadowing, abandoned plot threads and subplots, sidelined characters, and uncharacteristically bad writing that prove the ending wasn't thought out or good whatsoever. At least with the anime there's all the work MAPPA put into it, but besides that it's an objectively awful finale.

That plan would require forcing Historia and her children to become Titans. It's a treadmill solution instead of a single and done type deal. Half the reason the rumbling happens is so Historia doesn't have to become a slave, it's a central plot point. How can you miss it?

@@ddd-op5wy Yeah, it is a central plot point that Eren had the opportunity to choose a plan that wouldn't kill billions of people, but didn't because he didn't want to sacrifice Historia and Paradis's reliance on titans. They aren't "missing" that wtf

​@@Emily-pq6zd true and also, why would he kill his friends in this rewrite, after rejecting a partial rumbling specifically to protect Historia?

@@loganshalloe5927 Media literacy is dead and SnK is showing it off

​@@Emily-pq6zdThey literally are missing that. Their idea doesn't work with that restriction, and if you don't follow it, you're character assassinating Eren.

Yeah I was hoping for a better understanding of these finer points from him, considering the quality of his previous vids I've watched.

The amount of people that don't realise the Yeager brothers literally coordinated the Declaration of War is honestly staggering.

Explain how Eren and Zeke manipulated Marley into declaring war? Wasn't the whole point of the declaration that they need Paradis resources to stay afloat

@@JoblessJimmy I will do my best. I won't tell you direct quotes or describe the scenes because my memory isn't that good. In short, Marley initially didn't want to attack Paradis so fast. They just came out of war and wanted to focus on rebuilding their power. It's Zeke who proposed and pushed to attack Paradis fast. Getting the resources from them was one of the arguments that convinced them, but not the only one. Zeke also proposed that Tybur give the speech, but I might not remember that right. But I remember that Tybur knew he would likely die during it, it was part of the plan; to be a martyr to rally others. The purpose behind Eren's attack was to basically show Paradis as a threat to the world, as monsters. He killed civilians there, officials and journalists from other countries on top of that. It successfully brought other countries into this war. This attack didn't serve much other purpose for Paradis beyond making themselves enemies of the whole world. Marley took a hit but it wasn't big enough for all this planning to be worth it. Would Marley go to war with Paradis eventually anyway? Yes, but much later which would have given time for Paradis to find other solutions. What's more important, if Eren didn't attack Liberio most other countries probably wouldn't enter the war. Marley wasn't liked by others, and they were basically the only ones interacting with Paradis in the past 100 years; they didn't have much reason to join before. They joined out of fear that Eren created, which was the plan. I think most of the basics.

​@@micryt.So your solution is to just wait and pray the Eldians find a solution before Marley eventually attacks later anyway?

AnR is not that much better either. It's either Eren rumbles both Paradis and outside world then kills himself. Alternatively, Eren only leave small communities or tribes, no fully functional nations, alive after the Rumbling. Basically less than 80%. Only Reiner, Annie, and Pieck should've been killed off. Armin, Mikasa, Connie, and Jean cut ties with Eren for good. Eren either exhiles himself in loneliness or dies with the curse. The Yeagerist control over Paradis should've crumbled in a couple of years

Yo, have you seen part 2?

Either way Paradis is destructed, may I know how you think they moved? Bc when I draw it it destroys Paradis either way

They move in a line, following eren. The whole initial point of it was to destroy the outside world and save paradis

@@lechace5802 It's a shame we can't draw it, but I'll try to explain it. Paradise has 3 walls with branches to each of these 3 walls, the districts. In the event that the titans all advanced straight ahead, only the inhabitants of Wall Sina would survive. In the case of a straight line, the titans advance in the same direction, except that the titans 1- do not pay attention to where they walk and 2- in their trajectory to reach Eren there are dwellings, in my opinion it there is no way not to kill the inhabitants of the walls, and in a straight line even the inhabitants of Sina die

@@daeith1233It’s a shame that Isayama never clarified how exactly the rumbling moved.

@@theslicedmanzana yeah I don't blame him bc I can't see how it moves anyway but it would've been cool if he gave us his own explaination

Crazy plot twist.

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Honestly I really don't see anything bad with the ending. Maybe Historia was underutilized, but otherwise it seems like a perfect conclusion. The way I see it, Paradise was gonna go into war in the future no matter what happened. As long as humans live together we will fight, but what gives us humanity is trying our best to strive for peace. We don't necessarily know what that credits scene's context was. Maybe the outside world wanted revenge, maybe Paradise got into an inevitable civil war, maybe it's so far into the future that has nothing to do with the events in the show. Either way noone's grand plan would be the definite final solution. Though that seems pessimistic, I still think the show as a whole acknowledges that everyone can play a part in making things better by empathizing with others and letting go of past grievances, and that trying is important even if the eventual outcome may be fruitless.

I feel very similarly. AoT was my favorite piece of MEDIA as a whole, and I think it still is…but I haven’t been tempted to rewatch the show because of the ending. The whole ending felt like there was something missing. Or many things missing. Which is exactly why I love this video! It fills in the cracks and gaps in the real story

I like the ending because it feels like something that could realistically occur if titans existed in our world. I initially struggled, but i think the overall message, is how many times in war, no matter who you believe is right or any good points either sides makes, its utterly horrific, terrifying and shockingly brutal. your point about there being evidence as to why the Jeagerists were right all along is actually correct, because their point of view is understandable. the actions they commit are not justified, and neither are the actions of Marley, but from each sides own point of view they believe that they are right and they also both make very valid points, despite neither being right or wrong. Think about jean before he joined up with Hange, he was trying to justify the rumbling and his points were understandable, because the rumbling would protect paridis and most people outside the walls wanted them dead, but as hange said, there is no justification for genocide. so despite the fact that the rumbling will protect Paradis island they choose to stop it, because its the right thing. then we have the people from Marley, they worry that the rumbling will occur, and after their history with king fritz they panic, leading to the destruction of Shiganshina and wall Maria. their fear of the rumbling and titans, whilst understandable, does not justify the racism and destruction that they cause. and we see Gabi realize this when she apologizes to jean. the very ending where paradis gets bombed hundreds of years later is showing how the cycle of war continues, the cycle of revenge and hatred continues. but then we see a boy go up to the tree, and unlike ymir he is standing with the dogs not running from them, despite the pain and hardship of the world people carry on, and even if there are setbacks, improvements can still be made, and maybe one day the cycle will stop, and peace will prevail. I heard that observation from an amazing analysis video. I recommend the entire thing but the most important part is at 34:48. and it better explains what I put above and adds other important details that would be difficult for me to explain in a comment.

@@racool911 Which makes the original ending bad.

@@acucumbergrowingoutofthegr2223 So your point is to not defend yourself? If someone is trying to kill you, do you kill them as well? Killing is bad, just like genocide, and the moral thing is to not kill, right? The ending showing the cycle continues ruins the story, and I should not explain why it does, but I will. It shows that Eren should have done 100% of the rumbling, because at least his people would be safe, or are you going to say it's a civil war on the island? You said, "but then we see a boy go up to the tree, and unlike ymir he is standing with the dogs not running from them, despite the pain and hardship of the world people carry on, and even if there are setbacks, improvements can still be made, and maybe one day the cycle will stop, and peace will prevail. " The bombing of Paradis shows that peace will not prevail because the cycle is cyclical. You are given too much positivity to an ending that makes the characters actions and choices meaningless.

Elaborate.

@@shawnellesmith i think he makes ending way more complex than it sould be, adding completely new stuff that just makes ending only worse. Ymir destroying Paradis?.. like what? Rumbling over, Eren is still alive and arguing with Armin... really? That is just so weird and doesnt make any sense to me

@@-kenjo-421 How so?

@@shawnellesmith idk

@@-kenjo-421 So you don’t like but can’t provide an explanation why?

You can call it armchair screenwriting after the fact, sure, but is there something wrong with that? Fan rewrites are useful exercises that teaches you how to edit and improve already existing drafts. Fan projects are also a great way to get eyes on your original writing as fanworks on popular media will always get more immediate viewership than trying to build an audience from the ground up. Take Celtic Phoenix's "Fixing RWBY" for example, he cant make money off of the work but it draws in an audience of both patrons and people who may want to buy his original books because they m8ked the writing in his fanworks so much already, and most of these people would never have been introduced to his writing if it wasn't for him establishing himself in an already existing community, in a way creating his own sub-community. In that same way, Unique also has his own comic that he likely wouldn't be able to get off the ground if it weren't for people already knowing about him and respecting his writing in his youtube videos

@@maxwellermeav I wince at the term "fix" when referring to someone else's work, specially to something as big as AoT. Sure, exercise, whatever. There's a real tempting trap in adjusting final details in a story and thinking that now you're on any level near to the original author. I don't know... it's just so arrogant. Even when people do it about blatantly flawed movies like Justice League I still think it's bad.

Couldn't you at least show appreciation for the creative effort that was put into this video before sharing your criticisms? Jesus, it's so rude when someone makes something genuinely entertaining to listen to, and then pessimistic people like you drop into the comment section to spread your negativity without acknowledging the work that was put into it.

​@@benny399 I acknowledged the work. As I said, it's likely the product of true fandom. But it feels so disrespectful to use the term "fix" when a piece of art is such a personal demonstration of its author's traits and flaws.

I imagine in an animated version of this Armin and Hange would be drawing in the paths sand to demonstrate what they're saying, but even if not the dialogue delivered by the voice actors would be a lot easier to follow than a youtuber summary of a 10-15 minute scene.

Well, where else are we supposed to get information on Titans? They are in a time-stopped world, so they have all the time to talk. Also, there are moments when you need to take a break from the tension for a breather. That way, you don't cause burnout.

@@jordanlang5172 it just sounds like the scene would drag, its seems like it be too long of the same thing

@@frank_calvert Really that would only be a problem if it was badly choreographed. Attack on Titan is full of 'speaky' exposition, it just does an amazing job obfuscating it with thrilling pacing and generally awesome narrative reveals. Off the top of my head there's Rod Reiss's episode long monologue, Declaration of War, The Basement, and the thing about all of those is none of them feel bad. Most people don't even realize an exposition dump is happening. As long as the same thing happened here, like for example with them drawing and molding the paths sand as they speak (like for demonstrating the 1/9ths titan Ymir parts), the scene keeping a steady pace, interesting camera angles, and it would probably work fine if implemented in a real manga/anime.

I couldn't agree more about Serenity, it's REALLY rare to find a AOT fan with maturity, brain and common sense these days!

@@PedroLucas-mg5jeholy fuck the bar is low

Oh, dude, watch part 2. It literally directly fixes like, 4 of the things you mentioned here, lol.

What;s so bad about it?

I mean it's a whole season (half a season?), you have time to explain stuff.

You have to remember that the best kind of action has dips and valleys to make the peaks stand out more. To me, that section feels like a very welcomed change of pace, a little down time to find our bearings as the audience.

Also you are forgetting the engagement that comes from revealing a plot twist. I would be anything but bored seeing the characters interact and call back to all the events of the past, tying up the entire series with new context.

I think I said this in my Hunter Hunter video, but I've never really thought of exposition as an inherent problem, always found it to be a surface level criticism. Its only BORING exposition thats a problem, and I think you CAN have INTERESTING exposition. Cause its not exposition in the sense of just sitting there explaining something new. It actively re-contextualises a bunch of different scenes and links them together under a line of logic that lets you look back and go "Ahhh so THATS what was happening in this scene". Even beyond that, it has multiple purposes within the plot itself, its not just an explanation, its the line of logic that stops the rumbling, inspires Zeke, and its also a form of homage that makes Hange's sacrifice feel more meaningful. I mean like, have your opinion but, I just saw this with like 7 upvotes and I'm like, huh, don't really get it despite the popularity of this citique.

​@Uniquenameosaurus the problem with exposition is that it dumbs things down for the lowest common denominator. Also, this is a visual medium, show us a scene, don't just spell out all the facts for us. Show not tell. Demonstrate, not describe.

Actually all my stuff is public domain, so you don't even need permission. You do however, have my blessings to do whatever you want with my work.

@@Uniquenameosaurus This is the greatest and only blessing that I will cherish till the end of time

Have you not seen the second part of this?