Finally someone agrees with me!
To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back.
To be fair its strongly hinted the powers at be sabotage the Survey Corps and such. Just look for the cues in the manga.
>But is EVERY SINGLE SOLDIER unable to act on simple commands? As soon as one bad thing happens, everybody becomes useless quivering masses of stupidity.
I think someone stopped at episode 5.
>The Titans are creepy as hell
I disagree. I think they're absolutely awful and are un-intimidating to the point of obviously unintentional irony. They do a better job of being such massive contrivances considering the danger they pose that the only interesting ones are the ones involving something outside of the usual design. Otherwise, they're so buffoonish that it's a wonder they're even remotely capable of any danger to others before themselves.
@Tomodachi: Yes. It's not that great. I might watch again out of curiosity.
@qtjinla: I have never read the manga. But I've heard it's a bit better.
@seg162: With the shear amount of characters and other soldiers, most of them just end up dead. I'm not so much talking about the main characters as everyone else. I pushed on toward the end of the show. Even my pops was annoyed by how incompetent all the soldiers were and how slow the show was. I watched all of that season. They got a bit better, but it seemed like every episode, a huge percentage of the population dies.
@Blood Raw Knuckle: Heh heh. They creeped me the hell out. I don't like that weird off-human look. I just don't. But I see what you mean too. They tend to go over the edge. It creeps me out because of how boring some of them look. Mundane. It's weird. And unsettling. That's the best kind of scary for me. But, again, I know what you mean.
It is what it is.
For me, it's partly that the creators were TOO obvious in their intention yet still expected us to take it seriously as some sort of Nightmare Fuel, when it's more on the level of black comedy trying to be a serious drama. That 'mundane' factor to their design to me turned out to be just a failed attempt at subtlety their threat factor. Suffice to say my problem is that, taking your point into account, they're 'off-human' look was not only not off-human enough, but did a better job at making them seem more buffoonish than their personality-lacking aura and contrived instinct-based motive already made them out to be.
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DBZ-Level Poor Pacing Really Hurts This
Attack On Titan is cool, but suffers from heavy-handedness in the War Is Hell Department, and horrible pacing.
If I had to sum up how this anime really is, I'd say it's got the basic shell of a Gundam show, An Aesop of The Hunger Games Mockingjay, and the stretched out pacing of a Dragon Ball Z arc.
The good first. The titans are freaking creepy as all hell. The Uncanny Valley is strong with this one. Those perpetual smiling faces and androgynous genetalia-lacking bodes are just eerie and disgusting. Each titan looks unique for the most part.
The fight scenes that they spend all their money on is also stunning. The titan battles are well animated and the moves are impressive.
The various body types of the characters in the show are welcome. Each and every character body has been modeled uniquely and with much variation. So everyone has a distinct look.
Now the bad: The plot is simple enough to follow: a town with several outlying rings is breached, and the Corps must find out about the titans and fight them. Simple.
The problem lies in the Anvilicious delivery of the War Is Hell message.There are preventable accidents and deaths abound in this series, because every warrior save for three are absolutely atrocious at their jobs.
They're trying to tell us that War is scary and people become petrified when faced with the End. ... Okay. I can buy that. But is EVERY SINGLE SOLDIER unable to act on simple commands? As soon as one bad thing happens, everybody becomes useless quivering masses of stupidity. It's a whole army of RedShirts. It makes no sense in a world where life is threatened everyday by invasion that people are this incompetent. One could Hand Wave this by blaming it on the Powers That Be and their incompetent ruler. I guess.
Either way, it's completely infuriating to watch. This is not an anime that deconstructs society or the human psyche. And people spend a crap load of time talking about nothing. About what they will do, what they won't do, what they wish they could do. An entire episode centered around people discussing the fate of a character, and then a speech of boringness followed.
All in all, not horrible, but I won't continue to season 2. 6/10