Still feeling conflicted about AoT. On the "good" side, there was that one girl in the titan's stomach, calling for her mother to help her before she sank into the stomach acid, an insanely gripping moment that (along with the various cadets committing suicide rather than be captured by the titans, or begging not to die when they get captured) illustrates how horribly they suffer right up until the slow end in a titan's stomach. Really, it's far worse than "war" in reality, since in the real-world wars, death usually comes quickly (since most soldiers nowadays are killed by explosives, and even getting shot is a pretty quick way to go as long as it occurs properly), designed to ramp up the torment from beginning to end in a way that's masterfully executed to demonstrate just how bad humanity has it against the giants: you're not just going to die, you're going to die *horribly*, and it's going to take a while.
On the other hand, there was a *lot* of fairly painful "Telling not Showing" going on, like when Armin was mentally debating his usefulness while they were in the skeleton and the other guys were trying to kill him. They could have demonstrated that without the monologue, and it slows things down. The insane violation of conservation of mass that seems to be going on with Eren's powers (even worse than other transforming superheroes, where we could plausibly believe that something mitotic is going on under the surface, this guy's just sprouting whole, gigantic bodies on a case-by-case basis. It would make more sense if he were going Hulk, basically. He seems to be generating them rather than becoming them, which is going to need a damn good explanation)
