Pride

First of all, this episode gave me more of what I wanted instead of just more Annie. And this episode did more for Annie than the previous episode. She didn't even speak, but she instantly felt more human and real.

There are like three jokes in this episode and I think they all work. This episode is a better "cool before the storm" episode that the last one. I am really hoping the last two episodes pick up the goddamn pace which has descended to hell.

Almost every character here has a good character moment apart from Eren. Hange, Mikasa, Armin, Connie, Annie, Hitch, Floch, Yelena, John Bodega all get a nice scene in the episode. The episodes pacing is really nice but not the shows pacing.

This is easily the worst the show has ever been. No where near masterpiece level.

Its a great 8.5 episode with just good moments. Hoping the show gets back to masterpiece in the final two episodes.

Everything involving Connie was very rushed, and I was hoping they'd extend it in the adaptation but I expected them not to. Outside of Connie, everything in this episode was good. Also the ending scene where Connie says "to save the world🤓" was really goofy in the manga and it was slightly better here.

Isayama knows how to write politics well and it shows with Floch's speech! It dove deep into why the Marley volunteers decided to help paradise and their opposition to the rumbling despite working together. Highlighting the extremism by the Yeagerists, they begin to resemble the oppressive Eldians from 2000 years ago and the oppressive Marleyans that the volunteers escaped from.

The alliance between the Marley soldiers may come off as a little too sudden and fast for this episode but to anime only's, many conflicts will be explored in the next episode a little better as the preview shows the scouts and the Marleyans don't completely trust each other yet.

The "save the world" comment from Connie came off too strong and optimistic for this point in the story and could have been done better. Despite its minor flaws, this episode was great and paints a clearer picture of the direction this show is going.

The visuals were great, great animation as always, Hange and Levi, I love Hange, want more of her, the tension between the yeagerists, but this episode had a lot of cringy and weird moments. Pacing was alright, Annie coming which was good. The Mikasa and Louise scene. Then Annie shows up and all of a sudden there's comedy, do they not realize she literally killed many of their friends and soldiers? The meetup between Armin, Annie and Connie is a bit too convenient. Idk, it's just a strange change of tone. Most of the episode wasn't related to the plot, just some subplot with Connie which got resolved hella fast. Apparently the next episode fixes the issues with this episode so good.

This episode puts a lot of emphasis on the arcs of some characters rather than advancing the plot in a major way. This episode had great music, tense scenes and was very entertaining.