For all the chances I've given it, I'm afraid this show's appeal fails to reach out to me. The premise and the setting have never struck me as more than blase, the characters either generic or unlikable—Mikasa in particular comes off more as Eren's co-dependent lap dog with no sense of self-growth or expansive perspective than she does an empowering female or respectable Mama Bear archetype to the protagonist—the humor (and characters relating to it) falls flat on its ass whenever it makes the idiotic move of attempting it, and the main weapon against the Titans, the Titan Shifters, is simply akin to mechs made of flesh and bone. Kinda pretentious in that regard.
The action feels more repetitive and drawn out than fast-paced or entertaining to watch, and while the scene of Eren in his Titan form going on a rampage against all the other Titans was admittedly awesome (as is the Armored Titan), I've yet to see anything else that intrigued me nearly that much in any of the action. Anywhere else comes off as a matter of just flaunting its animation quality with long-winded tracking shots and off-beat Spiderman. And no, I didn't enjoy the fight between Eren and Annie—it felt like a slow-paced clip show with unnecessary cuts every three minutes.
The pace is record-setting slow, and not on an episode-to-episode basis, I'm talking line-for-goddamn-line here. Dialogue that's obviously meant for dramatic effect comes off as a recap of things WE'VE already seen thus already know, making the discovery on the characters' parts a lot less intriguing to watch considering again, how un-engaging I find the characters.
My biggest problem however, is the namesake; THE TITANS SUCK. Some of the least intimidating, most buffoonish and contrived excuses for a collective antagonistic force I've seen in an anime. They have NO personality to their presence even with all those stupid memes and screen caps I see of them, and really, while their weakness makes some sense when taking into account their supposed origin as the Manga states, the problem then becomes how predictable it was.
Altogether, the series feels like a set-up with relatively little put into defining itself besides its crippling simplicity. When I first read the plot summary, I was wondering if editors forgot to put "black comedy" in the genre tags—part of me still is.
Simply not for me.
For all the chances I've given it, I'm afraid this show's appeal fails to reach out to me. The premise and the setting have never struck me as more than blase, the characters either generic or unlikable—Mikasa in particular comes off more as Eren's co-dependent lap dog with no sense of self-growth or expansive perspective than she does an empowering female or respectable Mama Bear archetype to the protagonist—the humor (and characters relating to it) falls flat on its ass whenever it makes the idiotic move of attempting it, and the main weapon against the Titans, the Titan Shifters, is simply akin to mechs made of flesh and bone. Kinda pretentious in that regard.
The action feels more repetitive and drawn out than fast-paced or entertaining to watch, and while the scene of Eren in his Titan form going on a rampage against all the other Titans was admittedly awesome (as is the Armored Titan), I've yet to see anything else that intrigued me nearly that much in any of the action. Anywhere else comes off as a matter of just flaunting its animation quality with long-winded tracking shots and off-beat Spiderman. And no, I didn't enjoy the fight between Eren and Annie—it felt like a slow-paced clip show with unnecessary cuts every three minutes.
The pace is record-setting slow, and not on an episode-to-episode basis, I'm talking line-for-goddamn-line here. Dialogue that's obviously meant for dramatic effect comes off as a recap of things WE'VE already seen thus already know, making the discovery on the characters' parts a lot less intriguing to watch considering again, how un-engaging I find the characters.
My biggest problem however, is the namesake; THE TITANS SUCK. Some of the least intimidating, most buffoonish and contrived excuses for a collective antagonistic force I've seen in an anime. They have NO personality to their presence even with all those stupid memes and screen caps I see of them, and really, while their weakness makes some sense when taking into account their supposed origin as the Manga states, the problem then becomes how predictable it was.
Altogether, the series feels like a set-up with relatively little put into defining itself besides its crippling simplicity. When I first read the plot summary, I was wondering if editors forgot to put "black comedy" in the genre tags—part of me still is.