Attack on Titan is a complicated series and it’s never thrown more information at the audience and in such a compact amount of time. The anime is in the middle of a very intricate maneuver and it carefully wants to tease the audience and mess with their perception of what’s actually going on, but it doesn’t want to overwhelm them or make this endgame feel unnecessarily confusing. “A Sound Argument” benefits from how it doesn’t rush through the exposition, yet also avoids dragging its feet as Eren and company wallow in their fear and doubt.
Eren becomes more belligerent and vehemently opposes Zeke and Kiyomi’s plan, which endangers Historia, but otherwise reduces casualties. Many Eldians are crucial and important for this plan to work, which doesn’t mesh with the internal narrative that Eren continues to build in his head that he and he alone is the one capable of fixing this mess. The Eren from these flashbacks claims that he wants to end this suffering, but we’ve seen that his plan involves widespread fear, manipulation, and casualties. Present Eren appears to resent anyone that attempts to devise a more logical solution to his way of doing things. Eren still views this entire war as his story and a problem that he’s uniquely qualified to solve, while in reality it’s already progressed far beyond this point.
There are some chilling moments where the Survey Corps continue to throw Eren under the bus and claim that they don’t even recognize him anymore, with Mikasa being his sole defender. She brings up proof that Eren still cares about them and that he hasn’t completely changed. That being said, Eren’s plan still does seem sinister and his reluctance to “endanger” the 104th Survey Corps could just as easily be for selfish reasons that Eren hasn’t been completely forthright about yet. Attack on Titan is so thrilling right now because no one is in a place to be trusted. Eren brags about how he’s invincible to some extent, but his friends are getting more comfortable with the idea of someone prematurely eating him and taking his ego entirely out of the equation.
This war has characters thinking several moves ahead of their enemy, but “A Sound Argument” pushes Eren and the rest of the Eldians to think about decades–if not centuries–into the future. These soldiers are ready to cut their own stories short in order to preserve the futures that they’ve spent their lives fighting for. This generational aspect has always been a part of Attack on Titan, but it’s more prevalent than ever and it adds an unnerving atmosphere to the proceedings. Beloved characters are ready to willingly throw their lives away if it means that a better warrior can take over their cause. At this point I wouldn’t even be surprised if the final episodes of the series are set fifty or hundreds of years later and explore if any of this pain has actually done any good or if Eldia’s descendants are just as poor off and living in another, equally destructive, delusion.
On that note, there’s a disturbing element of Eldia’s plan that includes rapidly breeding Historia so that she’ll have as many royal children as possible to help ensure that Paradis Island remains in order for at least fifty years. “A Sound Argument” reveals that this is already in motion and that Historia is very pregnant, which also asks some interesting questions that have never before had to be considered, such as what happens to the fetus if a pregnant woman turns into a Titan? It’s tragic that Historia has already accepted her role as a breeding factory and safeguard for her people even if she seems to be at peace with the decision. It’s just another example of the avalanche of horrors that this war has triggered.
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