The “Final Season” have 3 parts. It haves has many seasons the rest of the show does. It’s getting dumb.
EDIT I like the show but stop doing the “Parts” thing. Start calling them what they are Seasons.
“Final Season: Part 2” baited me hard. I couldn’t even fathom that they weren’t going to wrap things up at that point. I had waited to watch the first part and I thought I was clever.
Nope, another cliffhanger. Fuck me.
I watch anime with a friend and we have forbidden to talk about AOT until new shit comes back, I really hate how they handled this ending…
In the meanwhile we can keep watching other stuff, and forgotting part 3-1,2 of AOT lol.
I just remembered how waiting two freaking years to get the ending that Got did made it so much worse than if the airing of final season hadn’t been so dragged out.
Really glad I just got Aot over with quickly by reading the Manga over waiting however many years it’s been since they announced the “final season” to get the ending that it did. It would have been another GOT type disappointment, since if I’m made to wait that long then I’m expecting something legendary like I did for GOT.
I thought it was finished a year ago…
The manga ended at least a year or so ago. The ending was… certainly an ending, yep.
Certainly. Waiting two years for Game of Thrones. Two very long years then getting the ending that it got made it so much worse than if the wait and reveal hadn’t been dragged out.
So glad I just finished out Aot through the Manga and got it over with for the ending that was certainly an ending over however many years this show has been dragged out for and still not concluded for the ending that is an ending.
I legit already forgot what even happened in the first 2 parts that I watched. I’m just gonna wait until it’s finished and then rewatch the entire season.
I feel like they did it this way out of some kind of contractual obligation. Like they are getting paid to make a third season, not a specific amount of episodes. So as long as they continue to produce “season 3” they’ll keep getting paid.
I can’t think of any other explanation as to why they’d do this otherwise.
I don’t really think this tracks. The production committee gets final say on the branding and the number of episodes in each contract. The studio doesn’t get to play hooky and unilaterally tack on episodes to a fixed contract.
More likely, the production committee underestimated the remaining source material and thought they could wrap things up by commissioning an unusually long 16-episode season. It makes sense why they’d fall into this trap, I feel – they’d just dumped Wit who had continuously given them scheduling problems and wanted to lock in MAPPA to get the thing finished in a single contract (which they clearly failed to do, since this season has now required 3+ separate production runs)
There’s an interview from back in November 2020 which I think demonstrates their eagerness to conclude the series. It’s not surprising to me that MAPPA were the only ones to tell them that such a thing would be possible:
Tateishi: “While season 3 was in production, we consulted with Wit Studio, and it was decided that The Final Season would be created by a different production studio. […] Through many talks with Wit Studio, we understood that the continuation would be difficult, so we looked for a new studio. Kinoshita, Maeda, and I divided the searching duties among ourselves, but most studios turned us down. Everyone understood what big shoes they had to fill, and we were told by dozens of studios that they emphatically could not accept.”
Maeda: “Of course, there were also those who told us that they had the desire to do it but just couldn’t make it work in their schedule.”
Tateishi: “The only studio that said they would consider it was MAPPA. When we talked to WIT about it, they said they could rest easy knowing it was in MAPPA’s hands. The producers were in agreement, so the production shifted to MAPPA.”
Kinoshita: “MAPPA took the matter firmly into their hands, saying, ‘Attack on Titan should have a proper ending for the sake of the fans,’ which also made a strong impression on us.”
Maeda: “I think you can see their fighting spirit reflected in The Final Season’s PV. The show is in good hands.”
The producers also stressed that, for the sake of all the fans who have supported the series, they are determined to adapt the manga all the way until the end instead of concluding midway through. Kinoshita said that he has felt obliged to adapt the entirety of the manga ever since seeing the reaction to season 1 episode 13, where the Eren Titan seals the wall.
