Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Attack on Titan catchup, this time with 1×10, Response. After obviously having to start with more people trying to kill themselves (this show has a reputation to keep up after all) we carry on right where we left off with a cannon being shot at Eran and the others. The lone cannon shot caused a lot of panic and it really highlighted how on edge everyone is. People were jumping to all sorts of conclusions. Eran emerged out of the corpse once again which didn’t really help to calm the nerves of the soldiers shooting at him.

An intriguing note was the flowers magically appearing. I’m sure that we’ll come back to them but it was an interesting point that made you question whether they were a key to something else happening later on. I’m sure there’s a “planting the seed” pun to be said there somewhere. We did some conformation that it was in fact Eran’s dad who injected him with this “power” but you have to wonder why he was keeping his research into Titan weaknesses a secret. Surely injected this into a trained and trusted soldier would have made more sense? Maybe it was still in the early stages or there were side effects that the dad hadn’t yet been able to manage. But why on earth would you then inject your son with it!? We already saw Eran’s nose bleed so the transformations are definitely damaging him in some form already.

I liked how the whole episode was set within a very small time-frame but it did seem to take the soldiers a long time to do anything. Some of that may have been to build dramatic tension but no wonder these guys are losing if it takes them this long to reload one cannon. Armin’s self-pity was starting to irritate me and then just like that, he got over it and impressed me with his courageous speech. Although he presented a very goo argument, the captain (who was beginning to irritate me) just could not conceive the truth to be true. It was however nice to not see all of the soldiers blindly agree with him, and a higher ranking official step in to save Eran. They finally have someone on their side now, so hopefully they can start working together to really take it to the Titans. Will they though? I’ll just have to keep watching to find out.

DD Rating: 8.75/10