The GENIUS of the Basement Reveal - Overanalyzing Attack on Titan & Retrospective

Today at the Mystery Shack, we continue our retrospective analysis of Attack on Titan and episode 56 – "The Basement". Join me in overanalyzing every single detail of the show and generally nerd out about anything and everything!

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Timecodes
00:00 - Episode 56 Title: The Basement
01:07 - Nightmares of Another Life
06:50 - Eren & Armin
09:41 - “Why me?”
14:34 - To replace Erwin
17:51 - We’re here
19:48 - Journey’s End (Not a Frieren reference... or I guess it actually kinda is bc its not the end)
25:06 - The Key
28:08 - The Basement
31:18 - Erwin & Nile
33:27 - Beyond the walls
35:56 - Beyond....beyond the walls
39:20 - Closing Thoughts
39:51 - Outro

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[johnwilliams]

The walk to the basement always felt like a funeral procession.

[solalabell]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who loves ‘nature reclaiming cities’ as a setting

[eppinizer]

Pretty sure this show has the record for giving me the "Wait Whaaatt!?" chills.

There were so many times I thought I had things figured out only for my perception to shatter in the greatest way.

[gatsuofmontecristo]

It's called the basement because it's extremely based

[SpammytheHedgehog]

"Then, everything changed when Eren saw the Basement."

[banicans]

I love how the big secret was just a photo, something pretty mundane, however it's what it implies that so world breaking.

[theblazinken]

Fun fact: the post credit scene of this episode was the first bit of AoT I've ever seen. I'm Polish, so seeing a clear reference to Jews in ghettos got me like "what show dares to mention this part of history?". So I went back and binged the whole show in two days flat. Worth it

[Tyrarl]

37:42 off topic, but as a former English teacher, i agree that the suppression of certain language is seriously bad. It reeks of "doublespeak" to, as you said, damage the credibility of a sensitive issue. We need to be able to discuss these topics if we want to learn from our mistakes and our history so that we can improve.

[fiftycal]

I really wish I could watch this show for the first time again.

[Treebohr]

2:06 I love that you zoomed in on the sentence saying there's no way we read it AFTER I had already read the whole thing.

[realstrixy]

He going gobblin mode. The wait was worth it.

[line]

The post credit scene of this episode is maybe my favourite post credit scene of all time, the way it just casually reveals what we've been waiting for so long from the start of series & it isn't even big reveal at the end of episode, it's just tucked away in a post credit scene, marvel wishes it had this good PCS, also I love the ost, I listen to it time to time, it's very charming & I got chills first time I saw the ominous dread of small childrens amidst the backdrop of horrible imagery( ghettos & armbands), truly groundbreaking & revolutionary plot twist.

[spinningredchair]

I love how when you watch the show you and they say "Is this a drawing?" You're like "No that's obviously a picture, how could they not kn-" and then it hits you. They've never seen a camera. They've been using wagons, water wheels and lanterns. They're in the past. And the fact a picture exists means there's someone out there years ahead of them in technology. And then new puzzle piece drops onto your puzzle board and messed up all the other pieces

[krtkjkr]

13:25 My three arguments for it to be Levi:
1) We see this room where Erwin now lies during Levi's words about choosing this place for Erwin's death, so it makes sense that it was Levi who brought his corpse there, said goodbye and left the flower.

2) Isayama said that Levi eventually returned for Erwin's body to give him a proper funeral. So he knew where to find him, and again, it's just all very personal for Levi.

3) There is a voice drama where during the timeline of s4 Levi decides to take a single white flower for someone fallen. It can be a reference to him leaving this flower at Erwin's death bed.

UPD: oh, and the fourth one is that along with that voice drama at the AfterParty you could also find Erwin's bolo tie with the message, "Someone is taking good care of this." I think it would only make sense for Levi to take it off Erwin privately and not right on the rooftop where everyone could see.

[bloodysweetzombiegirl]

This is one of the few channels I wait to watch. Your over analysis of AoT is perfect bc there is So Much to look at. And the edits are honestly everything. I see them being used on other channels now, some with You being used as the little tea toe man.
You’ve officially made it, Sir. 😊

[jip]

Easiest click of the week. Thanks Koroto.

[davidf]

One thing I noticed watching the series for the nth time : Eren being stressed and panicking twice in this episode (1. When the key does not open the door 2. When the empty drawer is revealed) is at least imo a sign of Eren knowing deep down (thanks to future memories or Grisha's memories, unconsciously) that he will be disappointed and destroyed by the truth he will learn. Unconsciously he wanted to avoid this truth as much as he could, saving some time before the fall of this fake world of Paradis that saw him grow.

[ColonialSun-mgtq]

Erwin’s gone and I can’t keep talking about his balls😞

[mrtrue_darknesch]

maybe Armin also threw up because he literally cosplayed my chicken nuggets and was burnt to a crisp at 9:21

[abcdef.fedcba]

Me overanalyzing: you keep yapping about everything except for the basement. Just like the anime did for 55 episodes.