Kibeth41 said:
I'd count them as Pyrrhic victories, but nothing really true.
You got a lot of holes in this post.
They closed up a hole in the wall, which the colossal titan kicked back in.
That didn't happen. The colossal titan made his second appearance, kicked in the outer wall of Trost, and let titans in. The humans not only prevented the titans from breaching the much-more-important inner wall, but they reclaimed the district and sealed the breach the colossal titan made.
From the titan's perspective, the entire attack was a failure. The fact that the humans died in their dozens achieving it is a recurring theme in the series and a realistic one; even when you win a battle, some people die.
And then so many people died to the female titan that I'm honestly not sure if I'd really count it. Shit, even then, Annie froze for some reason, so they couldn't even find out anything from her.
From a casualty perspective, they lost several dozen people and took out a
unique enemy titan, of which there are only three shown so far.
It sounds callous, but the humans in Attack on Titan have reserves. You can afford to lose a hundred guys taking down one titan shifter when there are only three or four of them in the entire world (and one's on your side.)
The humans were shown to kill Titans all the time. Sure, the female Titan was stronger, but she was also a new threat, so the fact that she died relatively quickly means nothing special. The Armored Titan and Colossal Titan were the ones causing the mayhem.
??? A new threat shows up with capabilities far beyond anything the characters have encountered before, and the fact that she dies relatively quickly isn't anything special? It sounds pretty goddamn special to me.
Really, I don't get it. How does the fact that she was a new threat mean that her defeat and capture was unexceptional? The novelty of her capabilities is a disadvantage for the humans, not an advantage.
I don't buy it. If you don't like AoT, that's fine. I thought it was pretty terrible for the first five or six episodes, right up until the show turned into giant naked people doing MMA. But making up half-assed complaints about it is just...I don't know, man. Put some thought into your criticism, make it worthwhile. Otherwise it's just two-dimensional bitching.
On-topic edit:
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