@xaviers_ego As in, one-dimensional villain - predictable, unnecessary, flat. As far as making the MC look good is concerned - the whole monologue from Kate had that specific purpose, and the previous monologue from her other fried. The goal was to showcase how good our MC is and how much her...
@Rgal Kimberly's equating commoner = good, noble = bad. The author went directly for the one-dimensional identity politics, just so that our MC can be made to look good.
@rabidfish
Why did you get offended that I implied that this is not "actual" literature? You even acknowledged this is not the best thing around. Do you disagree with any of my points?
@rabidfish
Try reading actual literature. Or if you can't stomach that, try reading some of Asano Inio's works. Despite the fact that I really wanted to ignore the shortcomings of SnK, it simply went downhill midway. Introducing "deep shit" and mishandling it can easily result in a pretentious...
@rabidfish
It should have kept being about a shitty brat, since apparently that's as far as Isayama's skill goes as a writer.
It became a shallow and pretentious story about Isayama's sophistry about humanity, war, etc.