Shingeki no Kyojin - 22: The Defeated / The 57th Expedition Beyond the Walls (pt 6)

Title:Shingeki no Kyojin
Episode:22: The Defeated / The 57th Expedition Beyond the Walls (pt 6)
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Stretch:
...and after the maddening cliffhanger at the end of episode 21, things just return abruptly to normal in episode 22. Corporal Levi turns out to be a superhero, who undoes what happened before. The whole 57th expedition beyond the walls pretty much ends not with a bang but a whimper. Little if anything was accomplished; apparently no major realizations have been made which would make sense of the inexplicable abilities of the Titans. No, things have only gotten more inexplicable, since another crop of counter-intuitive Titan capabilities have been discovered. We are left farther from the truth, not closer to it. And it dawns on me that ShinKyo as a whole isn't going to come anywhere near a conclusion in just 24-26 episodes. If the whole multi-episode expedition arc didn't do anything more than leave the humans even more demoralized, there's no way a climax and conclusion is anywhere near. This is going to be a long series—assuming additional seasons gets made. We must lower our expectations and wonder what sort of conclusion the final 2-4 episode arc will have, since that's all we can be certain we'll be getting.


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