The GENIUS 'Blink and You'll Miss' Reveals of Utgard - Overanalyzing Attack on Titan & Retrospective

Today at the Mystery Shack, we continue our retrospective journey through season 2 of Attack on Titan and talk about episodes 4 and 5 - "Soldiers" & "Historia". Join me in overanalyzing every single detail of the show and generally nerd out about anything and everything!

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00:00 - Episode 29 Title: Soldiers
01:05 - Utgard Castle - Zeke's Titans, Coffee
03:43 - Ragako - Connie & Ymir
05:20 - The Marley Supplies - Marleyan Text & Fishy Cans (heheh)
08:08 - Scouts vs Ragako (Titans that is)
09:25 - Reiner, Marcel & Ymir
12:58 - Midcard - Utgard Castle & Utgard in Norse
13:23 - Reiner vs Titan
14:48 - "No... He was a warrior."
16:41 - Zeke, The Baseball Catapult Monke
17:57 - The Jaw Titan
19:00 - Episode 30 Title: Historia
19:18 - Snow POOOOG
20:12 - Midcard - Winter Training
20:41 - Historia is Missing
22:17 - Saving Daz
24:08 - Ymir (Stealthily) Transforms
25:02 - The Promise
27:03 - Jaw vs Utgard
29:45 - Ymir Falls
31:21 - Historia & Ymir
32:05 - Closing Thoughts
32:44 – Outro

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[Just_an_astronomer]

The look on Ymir’s face when Reiner asked how she could read it tells me she was literally contemplating killing him to silence him.

[SpammytheHedgehog]

Girl: All boys do is lie.

Reiner: I'm the Armored Titan and Bertoldt's the Colossal Titan.

[maintrain]

The Can scene is one of the most genius scenes in all of fiction. The amount of information packed into that scene is unreal

[FantasticMrFrog]

One extra "blink and you'll miss it" detail in the Utgard Tower episode :
After Reiner's arm gets bit, the very next frame is Berthold gasping in horror.
First time viewers would interpret this as fear for Reiner's life, but in hindsight, this is fear for everyone else's, including Berthold's own life, should Reiner fail to exert instant perfect control on his titan abilities and transform on the spot, obliterating everything or everyone. Yet another hint of Reiner's true identity after the canned herring scene.

[lanzer]

Love how all these facts about how Pardis doesn't have baseball, monkeys, coffee, cans, and all other stuff just goes over the characters' heads while the audience think nothing of it. When the beast titan was doing a baseball pitch with perfect form, none of us thought "why does he know baseball?" and just assumed "monkey throws stuff". Love that about this show.

[roberth]

This man is going to get through the entire Marley war arch before the actual show finishes

[TheOwlofAthens]

This is the perfect red herring, because everyone is so focused on Ymir knowing the language the ignore that Reiner acknowledges the food as being canned.

[lordindisar]

31:57 it actually IS about this Ymir! The praying titan was one of her cultists, Ilse looks nearly exactly like freckles, and the titan got confused.

[DourFlower]

I strongly believe the two little titans fighting are connies little brothers because they have intense sibling energy that anyone who grew up with a brother can recognize immediately. Slapping each other ans pulling each others ears is day one brother stuff

[ThomasSH]

Nanaba's death was the most terrifying imo. Even above Miche. Look closely and one titan already ripped her leg off. She's a veteran and a badass but in her final moments she seems to be hallucinating a traumatic childhood trauma. So scary imagine being pulled apart by giants trying to eat you. Rest in piece banana.

[llliwwille]

You missed during the Nanaba death scene she isn’t calling for her father, she’s apologizing. She begs for forgiveness to her father as she’s being ripped apart. She says she won’t do it again and she’s sorry. This implies that she had an abusive father in the past. Someone who physically harmed her and so in this moment when she’s being killed, moments from death those past experiences are brought up in her mind and she pleads her father to stop

[MegaCdjohnson]

DUDE CALLING OUT BERTHOLDT ABOUT TO BITE HIS HAND AS THE TOWER FALLS IS INSANE. I never in my life have noticed that and I’ve seen this show an embarrassing number of times

[roggonval]

I was watching Aot just chilling when suddenly reiner say "btw I am the armored Titan and he is the colossal one wanna join?" And I was like wtf the subtitle guy is crazy

[daydreamishh]

Nanaba screaming like a child being punished by her dad was literally so dark 😭😭😭imo one of the most messed up moments in early aot

[SnipedAlpaca]

I remember the hour between watching Marcel get eaten and the warrior reveal I was sitting there thinking, what were reiner and bertholt doing outside the wall to have their freind get eaten by a titan. It was a very confusing time until i got to 2x6

[Starvin-Marvin]

Historia using the wine on Reiner’s arm kept anyone from drinking it and turning into a Titan when Zeke yelled at the top of the wall.

[Lycox]

Ymir's titan was actually a mistake by the author, not having a finalized design for the jaw at the time. In the manga they're even more similar, but the anime added extra details to differentiate them.

[adelboukabous]

1:13 some people are saying these two are Connie's little brothers.
15:37 Connie here talked about how he is going to pay Annie and Reiner back for saving him which he does later in season 4 ep 27.

[llliwwille]

You also might have missed how the bottle Gelgar attempts to drink from was the same one Christa used on the cloth earlier

[stray_cat]

15:35 I'm pretty sure at this point in time, Connie is still unaware that Annie is a shifter, neither was anyone outside Stohess district within those following days, If I remember correctly, Erwin only disclosed that information through a small circle of people who were majorly involved in the surprise raid on Annie.