Talk:Episode 19/@comment-16729840-20150220004830/@comment-24494906-20150224134331

^ It's not an earlier draft. Ishida made the draft in July last year.

I think I've figured out what Ishida's goal was when he asked the staff to follow this alternate route.

But the narrative disaster in ep4 was so bad that the anime hasn't been able to recover from it yet.

What's ticking me off is that the narrative disaster in ep4 was easily avoidable - even if the episode director is a complete washout. If they had added a few thoughts of Kaneki why he decided to enter the fight against Shachi, the fight would have worked. And if you have too much stuff to cover in one episode, then you have to try to move as much stuff as possible into other episodes. And that'd have been possible - just move most of the Donato stuff into ep3, move the attack on the prisoner transport into ep2, and they'd have had 5 additional minutes for the Cochlea attack that they were missing on all ends in that episode. But instead, they decided to waste this time for teasing stuff at the end of ep2 :-/