Hello everyone and welcome to another Attack on Titan reaction with 1×8, I can hear his heartbeat. This episode was where the impossible happened: it was actually less miserable than the episode before. That’s right! The show finally drip-fed us a little bit of hope. We still started off with people wanting to kill themselves (in this case Armin) but this was nothing new, and Armin’s plan to steer the elf-eared titan towards the other ones was a genuinely good idea. It is nice to see Armin showing his value to the team as he was starting to feel a little too sorry for himself recently. Most of the crew actually survived the journey there, but you just knew the guy who complemented Captain John was going to suffer in some way. There is always a hidden motive for them trying to get you to like a random, minor character.

For the first part of the episode, the majority of the Titans were being presented as rather stupid, so it was nice that we learnt a bit more about how dangerous they can be. Them being able to smell if too many humans are together plays them up as more animalistic and threatening as they don’t have to see you to find you. I’m still interested in why most are so interested in humans as we know it is not for food… The Titans still ended up getting outsmarted in what was a really overdue victory for the humans. They cut it so close too, allowing the Titans to get extremely close before shooting. How did two miss though!? Cue the Mulan “he was three feet in front of you” reference.

The best part of the episode though in my opinion was just seeing that Elf Titan fight the other Titans and hold his own for as long as he did. Him still fighting like a mad thing even after his arms had been ripped off was one of the craziest things I have seen in a while. I had a number of theories about the Elf Titan that I was all prepared to go into, but they were all blown out of the water when Eran magically appeared out of the titan’s body! How did that happen? Can he take control of Titans? How did he get the power if that is the case? How did his limbs grow back? So many questions that I guess I’ll just have to keep watching to find out the answer to.

DD Rating: 8.2/10