Honestly, the notion of the balloon commander realizing the folly of his society and waking up to the consequences of history is just so dumb. He should have been talking about devils and shit, not reflecting on the evils of his country. Literally wasting pages giving us lukewarm exposition. We've read the chapters, Isayama, you don't need spell it out for us. I feel like next chapter we're going to get 20 pages on why genocide is wrong, when I just want to see titans fight each other. In Isayama's mind, the reader is a child playing with blocks, trying to put the square in the round hole.