Why not? The world is a complicated place and so are human feelings. On one hand, I get that romance don’t generally have a place in most shounen anime.

Second of all, I don’t know how I feel about it as an audience member invested in the overall story. This episode is like eating a really good, but rather small slice of cake. I thought the episode was going to conclude the season on a higher note than rehashing certain information that are beyond clear by this point and ending with a zoom on the Beast Titan, whom we know far too little to really get the true impact of the terror he’s supposed to convey. I thought when Eren accidentally discovered his new power of controlling normal titans that there was going to be more happening than just the Survey Scouts retreating back to the safety of the Walls-although to be fair, that was the smart thing to do under the circumstance. I wanted to see a fight between Reiner, Bertolt, and Eren of Season one Eren-Annie proportion. To be honest, “Scream” seems more like a setup episode than a finale episode, but it may just be me having been spoilt by the epic showdowns typically expected of season finales on western television.

Lost season 2 episode 12