Haven't read any of the manga but just finished watching what there was of the anime on Netflix (which I think catches all the way up to where they left off).
Very impressed with the show overall, the pacing drags just a little bit but I don't think it's too bad. I both enjoy and detest that we never get like a really decent look at the titans, they're always in like shaky action shots or like super close-ups of their face or like fade-to-black moments. It does a lot for pumping up the action and suspense, but my curiosity of what they actually really look like and behave and shit is higher than Mange's atm.
The only thing I don't really like about the show overall is that I feel almost nothing for any of the characters apart from Eren/Mikasa/Armin and a little bit of Jean. Everyone else just gets introduced and killed, or just too little of information is given for the characters I am interested in, like Sasha and the others from their corps regiment. I feel like they want you to feel for some of the characters they introduce like Petra and the rest of Levi's squad, but you only get to know them for like 3 episodes,,, and like I totally called that Annie was the betrayer, but again, I didn't feel betrayed even though I think that's what they wanted you to feel. Like, I couldn't sympathize at all with Eren or the others during that whole thing cuz we just didn't get to know her or their relationship other than the practice fight scene in the first couple episodes.
Anyway, excited for season 2 and I'm glad I waited til now to watch it cuz I guess it's been further delayed to release in 2016 lol.
Very impressed with the show overall, the pacing drags just a little bit but I don't think it's too bad. I both enjoy and detest that we never get like a really decent look at the titans, they're always in like shaky action shots or like super close-ups of their face or like fade-to-black moments. It does a lot for pumping up the action and suspense, but my curiosity of what they actually really look like and behave and shit is higher than Mange's atm.
The only thing I don't really like about the show overall is that I feel almost nothing for any of the characters apart from Eren/Mikasa/Armin and a little bit of Jean. Everyone else just gets introduced and killed, or just too little of information is given for the characters I am interested in, like Sasha and the others from their corps regiment. I feel like they want you to feel for some of the characters they introduce like Petra and the rest of Levi's squad, but you only get to know them for like 3 episodes,,, and like I totally called that Annie was the betrayer, but again, I didn't feel betrayed even though I think that's what they wanted you to feel. Like, I couldn't sympathize at all with Eren or the others during that whole thing cuz we just didn't get to know her or their relationship other than the practice fight scene in the first couple episodes.
Anyway, excited for season 2 and I'm glad I waited til now to watch it cuz I guess it's been further delayed to release in 2016 lol.