![]() ![]() Using the power of the Attack Titan, Eren sent future memories to Grisha in order to manipulate him to kill the royal family and set the events of the show in motion. He put these events into motion, and did what "Game of Thrones" set up with Bran but quickly abandoned - that everything that's happened was the choice of one person. Eren was not just manipulated, turned into a Titan, and thrown into this conflict because Grisha is a terrible person - it was Eren all along. Anime shows love to introduce a new secret ability that changes things late in the game, but again, the episode does a great job of making it fit seamlessly with what we know. That's right, "Attack on Titan" just introduced time travel and time loops 79 episodes into its run, but the thing is, it kind of fits. Grisha even gets the protagonist fish-eye lens moment of sheer horror, while Hiroyuki Sawano pulls back on his roaring action score to deliver haunting horror-inspired tunes. Even after death," Eren tells his father, who seems to be fully aware of his words. In a fantastic and intense call back to the earlier days of "Attack on Titan" as a horror show, Eren pulls the biggest Uno reverse card in the entire show and all shouts at Grisha to get up and finish what he came here to do, to avenge the death of his sister, his wife, his friends. Then Grisha decides not to kill the royal family because he's a doctor who vowed not to harm people - especially children. It turns out that, while every Titan can receive memories from past inheritors, the Attack Titan can see memories of inheritors yet to come. Suddenly, before cutting his hand and turning into a Titan, Grisha reveals the true power of the Attack Titan, and the reason he seems unconcerned with Frieda using her power against him. Whether all of this was planned from the very beginning, or if creator Hajime Isayama and the animators are simply really, really good at finding moments and frames they can re-contextualize in a way that appears perfectly planned and foreshadowed in ways the very best shows like "Breaking Bad" were able to do. But in a stroke of pure framing genius, the camera pulls back from the iconic frame of Grisha holding the key in his hand to reveal the horror on his face as he sees adult Eren standing in front of him.Įarlier in the episode, we get a brief moment where Grisha seemed to have noticed Zeke standing next to him, but here it is undeniable that he recognized Eren watching him, and with that realization comes a look of defeat, knowing that no matter how much he tried to change, Grisha still ended up pulling his son into this war. ![]() We see this when we explore another key moment in season 1 of the show: when Grisha first shows Eren the key to his basement way back in the very first episode of the show. Just as impactful but in a totally different way is seeing Studio MAPPA recreate scenes from earlier seasons seamlessly, emulating the art style of Studio WIT while adapting it to fit their current style. So seeing "Memories of the Future" arguing that a big reason for Eren being this way is just because he was born this way is both refreshing and impactful. Nature versus nurture has been a big part of "Attack on Titan" since its very beginning, with the bigger focus placed on nurture and how our circumstances leave us little choice in how we turned up. This scene was not the result of a lifetime of being raised as a soldier, but the actions of a self-conscious young boy who was full of rage and an urge to cause harm long before he started orchestrating mass killings in foreign countries we as an audience just chose to look the other way and blame it on circumstances because he's the protagonist. ![]() That's why this scene is so pivotal to who Eren is as a person, and why it was the first scene that I thought of after the attack on Liberio last season. Sure, Eren still carried on his father's will to fight against Marley, but it was not out of a sense of duty or because of some indoctrination as a child - he always had the instinct to, as he says, take someone's freedom away before they can take his. ![]()
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