Nah, most people agree on this being pretty farfetched even by SNKs standard.
Wait what
Brayden Sanchez
Cooper Lewis
He's fine.
Eli Campbell
No they don't
Lincoln Brooks
this is what happens when you put
>guy with plot armor up until then
against
>guy that can do no wrong at that point in the story
you're forced to create a really bad scenario if the two interact just to save face for either characters
Asher Hall
Jason Barnes
There's definitely some people that do defend that in the general. Even if it's just one retard with a lot of time in his hands. Or someone pretending to be a retard, which is basically the same thing. I've seen this shit multiple times.
Carson Ross
I think there are people who try to explain it within the realms of the canon, which is fine and something that can be done easily, but explaining something doesn't mean you're defending it. It's fucking stupid.
Justin Sanchez
O MY TITAN BRAIN
Carter Sanders
In this case, there's no difference between explaining it and defending it, because the explanation is going to be supported by the stupid rules created by the author, that is; to use the rules he set up as the basis for any explanation is accepting a priori the stupidity of the whole show. You cannot explain that scene and not admitting it is a stupid show as a whole by implication.
Jackson Hill
>You cannot explain that scene and not admitting it is a stupid show as a whole by implication.
Except you can.
Frodo has a mithril shirt, so why didn't someone just bury an arrow in his head?
Stupid rules in fiction don't make the fiction as a whole stupid. Frodo being attacked in the torso time and again so that his mithril shirt saves him, is stupid. But LOTR isn't stupid.
Eren using his titan body as an extension of his own nervous system, and by extension his brain, is stupid. But SNK isn't stupid.
What matters most is what the author chooses to do with his rules, and this is Isayama's failing.
>Don't stand anywhere near a thunderspear.
>Blows apart a tree.
>Mikasa detonates a thunderspear in her own face and nothing happens to her but Reiner gets fucked up.
Should Isayama have done the whole mind transfer thing? No, it's fucking stupid and hasn't been addressed before or since.
Should Isayama have had Mikasa fire a thunderspear and detonate it in her own face? No, it's fucking stupid and hasn't been addressed before or since.
There's a massive difference in defending, and explaining. Learn it.