This was the second time I rewatched this episode, and, like last time, I became overflooded with a huge load of information to process.
First of all, Connie's village:
Last episode, centered most of the spotlight on Sasha's background and her efforts returning to her hometown. For her relief, the village and her folks got away without or with the least casualties.
Connie's interesting as well, because he stands as a foil to Sasha in terms of behavior and reaction, though both share similar traits in their personalities: whereas Sasha's blessed with acute, mental agility then Connie does his thing with physical agility.
The fact that it seems that Connies' village people and folks vanished out of the earth without turning into titan fodder looks fishy, and I cannot shake this feeling that reading Bertholdt's reaction he look worried with anxiety, as if he had a bottled up feeling inside about something he knows or suspects.
Lastly, the titan that demolished Connie's home what made it so more disturbing than greeting Connie was:
1. From its anatomy, it couldn't develop its extremities.
2. It looked more like the titan itself came bursting from inside the house and not from the outside.
Then, I can only conjecture the titan could be a shifter as well, but that's not plausible due to its behavior unlike the beast titan.
This mysterious invasion, in turn, is connected to the enigma whether Wall Rose was breached or not, and I have this strong feeling it isn't. Precluding two possibilities:
1. The titans came from inside because all are shifters capable to turn into titans, though their behavior and intellect suggest that are the regular and abnormal types.
Or, the next one with more sinister implications....
Then, we cut to Ymir and Christa. She's concerned about the latter due to her family connections, according to the former. Following, later in the episode the pastor cultist cooperates to give a single name due to the massive amount of guilt he felt from within after witness to his despair and horror the massive evacuation of refugees due to the wall supposedly falling.
It turns out to be Christa's revealing that the cultists are in charge at monitoring her due to following someone's will, which could either be Christa's estranged family or another clan.
And, the unpleasant surprises do not end there. I mean titans capable to walk at night without sunlight, and whenever they cut back to the beast titan heading and climbing the wall I can only pinpoint it as the mischief maker and mastermind wreaking this new chaos.
That, and that both Bertholdt and Reiners' reactions were more startling than anyone else. Their faces littering with shock suggested as they already had acquainted themselves before with the beast titan; I won't exclude the possibility that beastie, perhaps, was the culprit that ate Reiner's other friend whom he mentioned the previous season.
Lastly, something is amiss with Ymir, because for Reiner to react with such astonished reaction meant he made a ghastly discovery on Ymir that she desired to keep secret and safe at all costs.
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I mean, Eren already beat a lot of Titans and even Annie in season 1.
Conny's Village People are the titans inside the wall!!
