Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160808233126/@comment-29463491-20160816113440

I think this chapter is the crossroad between the original ending and the current ending. We were told by isayama that eren dreamt his whole life,in the first episode there's a brief moment of dead corpsmen followed immediately by a picture of eren's eye with a bumblebee on its side.

Those pictures must be everyone's death scene. After characters identifying done,the dead corpsmen turned out to be Erwin alongside Levi, Mikasa, Jean and Connie, this means all of them should survived the entire series in order to die at the very end.

84th chapter revealed that Erwin had died and Armin survived. I guess the original story were :

- Armin didn't survive the 60 metres fall.

- the serumbowl won't happen

- Erwin lives on and keep leading the Corp

- Armin's death will fill eren and mikasa with more anger to beat the titans

This also means isayama spares Armin for the sake of better ending and the whole reason of  why some latest chapters are quite unrealistic and disappointing