User blog comment:Miskos3/Shingeki no Kyojin Episode 24: Mercy, Review/@comment-14674286-20130922044650/@comment-179280-20130922051314

No. That's why you should read the manga.

Eren hesitated to fight Annie because they had a relationship of mutual respect and admiration. Annie respected and admired Eren because of his clear goals in life and his willingness to go against anything to accomplish them, and Eren respected and admired Annie because she was a better fighter than him and saw her as his mentor. The problem is that key dialogue lines and interaction were cut from the anime altogether.

I'm not at all sure, but Isayama must have had strong reasons to have requested such changes to the story. Otherwise it doesn't make sense that these important interactions weren't shown at all.