It takes a little of the magic out of it, if I’m being honest. Attack on Titanis now a story about two warring people-the people within the Walls against the “hometown” people-and the Titans, who have been the primary antagonistic element of the story so far, are stripped of their agency as villains and reduced to, in light of this truth, victims of inhumane scientific cruelty at best, and weapons of destruction at worst. (Which would make a great steampunk B-movie now that I think about it, but I digress.)Īs as fan, I was so bent on wanting to know the truth that I didn’t realize what knowing the creation of the Titans means. On the other hand, this twist does something interesting to Attack on Titanthat I’m not sure I like: It turned the primary conflict of the story from Man against “Nature”, for the lack of a better term, to Man against Man. Of course the Titans are man-made, because Mother Nature and evolution aren’t entities with agendas, and certainly couldn’t have been the ones to have created humanity’s greatest predator. Of course a whole new race couldn’t have appeared out of nowhere overnight (unless they’re aliens, but that’s a whole other thing). It would take a lot of logistics legwork, what’s with the Titans’ bizarre biology, amongst other reasons, to make an Attack on Titanuniverse where Titans didn’t come from humans work. On one hand, it makes a lot of sense that the Titans were turned from humans. The actual visual confirmation came later during Ymir’s flashback where we see, first, one of Ymir’s worshippers being pushed off a wall and transforming off screen into a Titan, and then the same thing happening to Ymir. Although, you can kind of gauge the truth from one of the earlier episodes this season when the Titan with the tiny limbs freaked Connie out by welcoming him home, along with the twice (or thrice?) stated facts that none of the horses in the stables were taken, and why would Titans wreck an abandoned town? It’s pretty much confirmed during the opening scene where Moblit and the other scouts’ visit Connie’s hometown that the Titans were all once humans. Which brings me to my next point… What the Truth About the Titans Means For the Story Sure, the local militia dresses a little sharper and most Gestapo-esque, and there’s a different dominant cult, but as far as this episode goes, “hometown” is the same as the bleak, dystophic, isolated country it’s trying to destroy.
It added a dimension to the plot by introducing the first look into this “hometown” Reiner spoke of, and, to be honest, things in this “hometown” don’t seem that different from things in the world within the Walls. The flashback did more than just increasingly flesh out Ymir as a character. I mean, it’s pretty clear that it’s romantic love at this point, right? Because I don’t know many people who’d feel that intensely for their friends. I also think Ymir’s backstory speaks volumes about her attachment and affection for Christa, who was the first person ever to accept her for who she is despite her lies and flaws. Beneath her tough facade as a selfish, rude individual, all she’s ever done throughout her life was trying to survive as a victim of her circumstance. Ymir’s backstory explains her as a person very, very well. In fact, Ymir isn’t even her real name, but the name given to her upon her being picked for a life of lies as the leader of what seems like “hometown”‘s version of the Church of the Walls, where they worship the descendant of some king.
“Children” largely dominated by Ymir’s flashback to her unusual and sad childhood as a cult figurehead. Not only do we finally know the answer to the origin of Titans, how Titan shifters came about, Ymir’s backstory, a glimpse into the “hometown” Reiner and Bertolt spoke so frequently about, et cetera, but we got answers to questions I didn’t even think to ask before-all the the backdrop of a rather exciting escape sequence. This week’s Attack on Titanmay be the most eye-opening episode of the season. This Attack on Titan review contains spoilers.
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