You're forgetting that Shakespeare's works were often aimed at the elite and people who could pay. They were also sometimes designed to put him at odds with his patrons, which got him into trouble. The masses also enjoying it was Shakespeare's skill in combining high concepts distilled down into simple notions the masses could understand. The man said 'Brevity is the soul of wit'. His ideas were complex but made simple enough so the everyday man who could buy a ticket to a play could understand it. I've talked about the difference between knowing literary techniques enriches the enjoyment of a work and how not knowing these techniques will naturally make a work better for the audience, but if you do know them, you get maximum enjoyment. Shakespeare pretty much embodies this.
His writing is on two levels: the complex, for those in the know, and for the everyday person off the street. A very difficult balance to achieve. Not to mention cementing things like act structure, characterization, rising and falling action and things we take for granted today.
So uh, no, I don't think he'd be writing capeshit. To become basically the outline for pretty much all classical works for the next 500 years you kind of need to go a bit above and beyond that.
Not to mention the literary techniques he used like iambic pentameter and combining poetry, history, literature and playwriting into one singular distilled work. Capeshit follows a formula, Shakespeare pretty much invented it.
So no, I don't think he'd be writing for the masses of the modern age. He'd be more like a revolutionary director who established a film-making presence that is going to last for the next 500 years. Not some generic capeshit writer.
So yeah, the bard wouldn't be writing capeshit, he'd be establishing the pattern of film-making for basically the entire world. Or they'd just call him a white supremacist and he'd be ostracized. One or the other.
I like how this thread just doesn't give a shit about AoT anymore
I mean, there's everything that's been said and we can keep posting cringe and memes of people who like it. It remains to be seen if the anime will follow in the footsteps, but it more than likely will.
I don't see them changing it however, because its been pretty faithful so far. I don't know how that is going to work though, hysterically enough. Because holy shit in the manga its jarring.
The final fight is also pretty unimpressive and basically one sided with the cringe avengers winning and only losing Hange way way way back at the beginning. I mean, they all survive with the exception of Hange.
I mean, on a visual level its kind of hysterical to get to see Eren sitting in water, the shit kicked out of him by Armin, admitting he did it for the pussy and killed his mom.
Like many people have said, I think its pretty obvious that this ending was changed last minute due to editorial interference. They could gauge the reception of the incel virgin ending, but at this point, there's no indication that they're going to change anything. Its more work for MAPPA and it is very very very very unlikely they're going to change the 'genius' ending because that's how the world views Isayama now. I think its a hard cope that people think the anime will be any different. Unless there is some weirdo sort of compromise where the editors got one ending in the manga and Isayama got his ending in the anime or some shit like that.
But honestly, I don't think so. Isayama does not give enough of a shit and based the entirety of Eren's motivation on a three page flashback like 30 chapters or so ago. So MAPPA isn't going to spend money on a contract job to re-write the ending and Isayama does not care enough to do so.
We're basically waiting for anime people to catch up and laugh at them as they run in circles defending Eren's incels RISE UP.
