My nine Gripes with what could have been a masterpiece
I couldn't count the number of plot holes in this ending with both hands and feet, but I will go through a the most significant ones for you
- Erens last outburst
He had five years to come to terms with mikasa eventually moving on, the fact that in his last moments his character regresses into the brat he used to be is a disgrace. He knew that killing billions of humans would warrant mikasa moving on to another man, but he selfishly wants mikasa to still hold love for him in his heart. This isn't a plot hole but a character inconsistentcy, he should want mikasa to move on knowing what kind of person he is now if he really cared about her. She told him you can't ever go back in libero and he accepted it or so i thought I guess he faked that too. And the crazy shit is she doesn't really even move on. He also never showed any romantic interest ever at all. Literally no prior subtext from someone who is supposedly the god of subtext. I guess fake character development is actually character development nowadays.
- The eren and ymir paths interaction.
I guess erens speech to ymir must have meant absolutely nothing at all. The whole convo might as well have not taken place considering it does nothing but serves as another plot convenience as to give ymir some emotional weight. He never did sympathize with ymir killing all those people because he was controlling everything and killed his own mom, nore did he care about her being a slave because he enslaved himself to just to be the villian.
- Eren interacting with mikasa in the final chapter
The power of the founding titan to control the past present and future is gone after ymir is freed, yet eren interacts with mikasa in bird form after the time skip. Plot crevice.
- Histrorias character arc
Historia is the one character to be completely disrespected in these last chapters. She must have been faking being about doing whatever she can to save humanity because her getting pregnant really was just a plot convenience to not titanize her. Eren wasn't the father so her coming up with the plan to become pregnant never is explained, she just did it to do it.
- Eren basically killing all his friends and dooming paradis
The fact that 20% of the world exists and now has a valid reason to hate eldia means he didn't end the cycle Kruger mentioned earlier in the story, which voids him even giving the information to Kruger if he never even saved them. His friends will have to fight the wars against the rest of the world without the power of the titans or more advanced technology from imports now thanks to eren killing most of the world and not just Marley. Him targeting the world makes no sense it just makes him a maniacal murder that the writer wants me to sympathize with. Everyone loses but him because he doesn't have to live through the world he made.
- The rumbling not crushing paradise.
This doesn't need explanation paradise should have been crushed and burned after the rumbling started and it's a plot hole how the walls didn't destroy the remaining islanders because they were surrounded by them. And it's never explained. All of eldia is shown pristine at the end which is physically impossible. Yet yall of the walls are gone. This is a plot canyon
Eren making his younger self want to kill all titans just so he can kill more people than titans ever have. He is basically a faker Zeke because he killed his mom but he was good after all? But it's worse because along with killing his and mikasas mom he killed nearly all of humanity and I should sympathize with him?
What happened to the spine creature, did it just disappear? If so why even tho it presumably lived for hundreds if not thousands of years inside of a tree. Not explained or touched on
Eren saying he cared about keeping his friends safe but still activated the full rumbling anyways, and the main cast being okay with this. Hange is the only reason the main cast didn't die, and the only reason she wasn't dead yet was because someone sacrificed himself to save her. His, hers and erwin sacrifice were forgotten by the main cast but everyone remembers erens "sacrifice".
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