Board Thread:Manga/@comment-44086949-20191205133131/@comment-44086949-20191220134220

TKGriffiths wrote: I think the smoking gun that disproves your 'Eren and Zeke time travelled' thing is the fact that Grisha can only perceive Zeke when he's in both Eren and Grisha's himself field of vision. Unless you think this is a total coincidence, which I highly doubt.

Yes, I think this is a complete coincidence. Why would Eren not look at what’s happening in front of him? There’s not nearly enough evidence to assume he has to look at Zeke in order for Grisha to see him.

This is the fallacy of equating with correlation with causation. If the floor in your house were wet, you wouldn’t assume it’s because the house flooded with the mentality that “a flood would make the floor wet, therefore the floor is wet due to a flood.” Same thing applies here, just because Eren is looking at Zeke when Grisha is, doesn’t mean that’s the sole reason he is visible, let alone tangible. You’re allowed to be optimistic for your own fan speculation, but that doesn’t mean it’s the absolute solution if it makes more assumptions than what is shown. This is called Occam’s razor, where the most plausible answer is the one with the least amount of assumptions.

Simply put, this theory gives too much credit to Isayama. It assumes he would include such meticulous limitations for something as straightforward as going back in time to meet your father, but wouldn’t outright state or imply such.

This reminds me of when the community thought the Eren who got shot was a clone body. It relied on unsubstantial evidence that leads to a conclusion that not only complicates Eren’s powers, but the story of AoT, given that it would be a massive ass pull on us, the readers. Now this theory implies that he can’t interact with the past if he is blinded. Which is ridiculous for the reasons above.