I sat through the entire 26 episodes all at once and the only reason I kept watching it was because they would bring some ass pull at the end of every episode for a cliff hangar. And the sad part is the resolution in the beginning of every episode wasn't even good, it was generic and easily predictable. At the end of episode 5/6 the question was never "OMG guyz, did Erin really die?!" No, the question was "What kind of ass pull were they going to use to bring him back?" If anyone thought Erin becoming a Titan was somehow shocking or unexpected, I'm sorry but they have shallow preferences. So much death! Such wow! All cool! There's no point in showing the deaths of characters we know nothing about and expecting us to somehow be emotionally involved in them. In stead of just showing their deaths, they could simply tell us thousands of people got eaten and it would achieve the same result. Yet despite every battle going with them saying "We're all that's left" more and more troops come to be canon fodder. The show isn't bad, it's not shit, or terrible, but it's definitely not good. It's mediocre at best which confuses me as to why it's so -blam!-ing popular. A mediocre show shouldn't have droves of cosplayers EVERYWHERE wearing that stupid green cape wherever they go (I see people in Disney with them, like really? You brought that nonsense here? Damn weeabs). Always preaching how AoT is like the Japanese Bible. They're worse than SAO fans in not shutting up about the greatest piece of shit ever written because at least SAO fanatics are practically deranged and don't know how to write a coherent story (if the author of SAO can't do it, how can you expect the fans to know?). But the AoT fanbase is just awful, worse than the Madoka fanbase and boy do I [b][u]HATE[/u][/b] the Madoka fanbase.