This video explains the season finale for PART 2 of Attack on Titan season 4 and the PART 3 confirmation! In this episode we get a deeper understand of Mikasa and Eren’s feelings towards each other as well as an insight into why Eren is truly doing the rumbling. We also learn more about how Historia and Floch enabled the rumbling to happen and why a path to peace was impossible from the start.
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AOT Episode 28
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Episode 28 of AOT the final season was called The Dawn of Humanity.
During the time skip between seasons 3 and 4 the survey corps were looking for alternatives to the rumbling cause they didn’t want to rely on it for their survival. Relying on the rumbling would mean that Historia and her descendants would need to become royal blooded titans and to avoid this outcome Hange suggested that they should travel to Marley. By doing this they could learn more about the enemy and hopefully find a solution and episode 28 follows directly on from this. As the scouts set foot on the continent they’re greeted by Onyankopon, who arrived in Marley at an earlier date after presumably being brought there by the Kiyomi. His job is to take the group to the Azumabito estate but first we get a few moments of the eldians exploring the outside world and badly trying to blend in with modern society. Because this is their first time leaving the island they’ve literally never seen things like clowns, or ice cream or cars, which is why Hange started waving at it like it was some kind of farm animal. While most of the group was visibly excited to be here, from the start of the episode Eren had a depressed look on his face and often looked like he was deep in thought about something. The main reason his mood was so terrible compared to everyone else was cause he’s realising that all these people and everything around them will one day be wiped out because of him. Back when he kissed Historia’s hand he saw future memories of his full scale rumbling but for a few years he let himself believe that this future might be avoidable. Eren had originally hoped that freedom for the island and freedom for his friends could be achieved a different way but after trying and failing, at this point he was 90% certain that the memories he saw were unavoidable. That’s why he consistently had this vacant expression, since he was processing the reality that he has no other option but to he destroy everything he’s currently looking at. It’s interesting when we contrast Eren’s gloomy expression with Armin’s excitement, cause from a young age they’ve both had this dream to see what was out there but only one of them is burdened with this knowledge of the future.
Now before we move on, I thought it was worth mentioning the significance of Eren and Mikasa’s interactions in these early stages. On two separate occasions he was in a complete trance thinking about the terrible things that are going to happen and both times Mikasa shows up to break him out of that thought process. In my opinion this was foreshadowing for later in the episode, when Mikasa had the chance to break him away from this reality where he does the rumbling. In this one moment Eren was willing to forget about the awful future he’d seen and go down a completely different path but it all depended on how Mikasa responded to his question.
Later when Mikasa notices that Eren isn’t there, everyone goes to look for him and she eventually finds him by himself outside this refugee camp. Although she didn’t see it he was crying before she arrived and this is proof that right now Eren is mentally at his lowest point as is questioning whether the rumbling is something he wants to do. Remember when he spoke to Reiner earlier this season he revealed that he used to think everyone in Marley was an enemy but it was once he crossed the sea that he realised they were all the same. This is something Eren only understood once he got here and it’s why for this one single moment, he was willing to abandon everything and run away with Mikasa. As she approaches him he goes on to explain that these refugees are similar to the eldians, in that one day their regular lives were suddenly taken away from them and now they have no freedom.