I’ve just caught up with AoT, the two societies seem more like pre and post industrial revolution, it never really occurred to me they didn’t have photographs until they started wondering what it was. But yeah, it’s all getting a bit FMA 2003 in here.
Titans held back the advancement of the first society, ironically allowing them to develop anti Titan gear (also the royal family stopped development of anything that would make bypassing the threat too easy) the society grisha’s journals show has been allowed to advance, much like how you pointed out but you’ll probably soon see why their weapons are not advanced like any of their enemies
We’ll probably need an episode thread for this one, the post credits doesn’t go on for long but shows quite a lot
I don't know which spoilers to uncover beyond this one (I'll probably play it safe and say none) since I haven't read the manga and don't want to spoil it. I didn't think it was a bad reveal, I mean we'd long known there was at least one, probably multiple different societies outside the walls; The one Reiner, Berthold et al. come from (and possibly another which Ymir came from, thought that was obviously in the distant past) the whole 1930s Germany allegory did perhaps seem a bit out of nowhere but then it's not a huge leap in logic, since the obviously Germanic setting has been there from the beginning (and while I could still be wrong, I'd kinda been suspecting the Ackermans were a possible stand-in for Jews already). It's also perfectly logical that disconnected societies, like those in the real world, would advance at different rates. And the Titans are obviously a pretty big barrier to contact between peoples.
Wouldn’t blame it, by now even the anime is treating him like one. Ooh boy does he get treated like one going forward
