User blog comment:Miskos3/Spring 2017 - FT Wiki in Anime/@comment-4449950-20170618000706/@comment-4449950-20170618122827

Yeah, I heard there was a different director and I think it shows at times. I think the reason the flashbacks annoyed me as they did was because I felt they had a tendency to be very... hmmm, how to put this... convenient? Like, oh we've decided to finally focus on this character but because we haven't told the audience enough about them up 'til this point we'd better throw in a flashback so that you're up to date with who they are in an instant in a way that suits exactly what they're going through at this point in time rather than subtly and slowly revealing the depths of their personality over the course of the story. That or a kind of, we were purposely omitting/cutting short scenes to make this suspenseful but now that we want our dundunDUN moment we'll tell you what actually happened in those scenes we left out because we didn't have enough faith in our audience to stay intrigued unless we were dangling bait in front of you. It's kind of hard to explain, but I hope it makes sense, and I'm not saying this shouldn't be done, just that SnK did it a LOT imo. Like the whole "we don't know who the enemy is we'll cut to us preparing for something oh wait turns out we did know who it was we just wanted you to think we didn't so we cut out the scene where we discussed our plan and hunches and we'll tell you now because it's going to be relevant in about 3 seconds". And before anyone says, "Oh but the manga is different, blah blah" I don't care. I'm talking about the anime. And yeah, the Ymir/Historia thing also confused me :/ I was like... they're seeing you help them Ymir and if you help save Eren they're probably going to be happy and think you're on their side why are you convinced you need to be on team Armoured and Colossal? I dunno, w/e.

Lel, Bakugo winning polls is ridiculous for me. I have to assume something happens in the manga (which I don't read) because I can't fathom people actually thinking this guy is a good character. And even if he gets good development, his reason for being as he is was so dodgy and wtf in the first place that I honestly don't know if it'd make me like him anyhow. Arg.

Yeah, I don't think KnK was bad or awful or anything, I just think the tone was a little off. It was subtle differences, but to me it made the difference. I'm kinda funny like that though hehe.