Attack on Titan 4x02 "Midnight Train" Full Reaction
Added 2023-09-24 10:50:02 +0000 UTC^^^ Hey everyone, here's the full reaction to AOT 4x02 "Midnight Train"! Thanks! :)
Also, screen recording failed two minutes in so I had to overlay clips, apologies if the sound or visuals are off a tad or if weird jump cuts happen throughout !!
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Lol “ wtf who was that guy? “ *guy falling off of roof*
momma
2023-09-25 15:39:00 +0000 UTCAs far as the dinner scene with Reiner I think you'll appreciate my thoughts on it that I've gathered from watching this show many times haha. I think it’s complex and layered nature is brilliant. First, we transition into the scene with Gabi’s “BOOM,” a direct parallel to the Marley military officer who yelled the same thing to make the Eldian soldiers with PTSD fall down in the previous scene; a clever juxtaposition to show the cycle of hate and discrimination is being passed down. When Reiner starts talking about his time on Paradis, he opens with calling everyone there a ‘savage and heartless devil,’ yet the best example he could think of to try and continue his act is of Sasha offering to share the potato she took. Then he proceeds to describe normal human behaviors we routinely see in people like our family and friends. His family is shocked to hear them described as regular people and not devils. The window shutters timely break open with the sound of lightning and rain right after his speech, symbolizing that thinking that way in Marley is dangerous as if you’re letting a storm into your house. Gabi asks, “what do you mean there were all sorts of ‘people’ (not devils) there?” But Reiner’s mother appropriately closes the shutters to keep the storm out and reinforces the brainwashed view of them simply being “island devils.” There are two reasons Reiner attempted to talk in a manner like his mother would. The first is to keep up appearances and stay out of danger as we know at the end of the episode that Marley could be listening in to make sure the Warriors behave themselves/don’t rebel. This is also why Reiner initially freaks out at Falco on the train, he warns him to not think like that publicly, but clearly agrees with Falco’s thinking as in the end he says you have to save Gabi from a tragic life (you were on point with your thoughts, many reactors just assume he is being crazy/split personality). The second reason which breaks my heart is that he simply wants to be able to talk to someone about his immense guilt he feels regarding his friends. Gabi even offers Reiner an out from talking about his time on Paradis by telling her father that his nephew wouldn’t want to talk about that. He could have taken her up on that, but he doesn’t. He WANTS to talk about it in a genuine nature, yet he knows CAN'T as it would endanger his family. This is why we get his imbalanced story of claiming they were island devils but only giving examples of regular people and behaviors. Reiner cares about the friends he made on Paradis but feels overwhelming guilt for his actions causing them so much pain, to the point where we know it literally caused him to have a split personality in order to try and cope with his guilt. Who could possibly understand how he feels? I’m very excited for the next episode, which is one of my favorites that made me appreciate Reiner as one of the best written/personal favorite characters ever!
Russell Gambardella
2023-09-24 18:40:53 +0000 UTCExactly, Reiner went on a tangent to his family to explain how "devil-ish" the people of the island were, but as we saw the worst thing he could come up with was describing normal human behavior that is no worse than just average people, and his family had that horrible reaction because he humanized them and made it sound like "they weren't all bad people" which goes against everything they're told and made to believe.
Ameth
2023-09-24 16:40:00 +0000 UTCplease watch after ending scene of ep4
ACHILIES YT
2023-09-24 14:35:17 +0000 UTC"I enjoyed the shit out of the last episode... a lot of them are psychological reasons" - Bro you're going to absolutely love season 4 then Edit: Not sure where you're streaming, but in terms of subtitles Crunchyroll is really on point.
Stefan
2023-09-24 11:26:04 +0000 UTC
