Board Thread:Anime/@comment-27321453-20181014183006/@comment-1327106-20181021014409

WhiteOni wrote: I have a question...

How do they plan to get to wall Maria? Last time they needed an entire flare shooting formation to get forward. What now? Are they using Eren's titan controlling ability to make Titans go away when they get to close? They never even showed that Eren mastered that ability… They only talked about him training the crystal thing for months...

Notice the time of day they are leaving. It's sunset. They're travelling at night, when Titans are not supposed to be active. I assume they don't normally do this because they need to see. Previous expeditions towards reclaiming Wall Maria required supply transport, which would probably require a slower travel time due to the wagons. Also, if you hit a pothole in the middle of the night with a wagon, good luck fixing it before sunrise. But this time they plan on plugging the breach through Eren's hardening so there is no need to lay down a supply line.

I think Levi briefly discussed this in the first episode of Season 3 when they were in the cabin in the woods for Eren to practice, though it might have been cut during the manga to anime transition.

Tommy,Klaus&amp;Kol2012+ wrote:

The answer's not a manga spoiler, nor is your question. The Survey Corps has been trying to do this ever since the Wall was breached. In a nutshell, fixing Wall Maria stops the Titans from coming inside the three Walls, which is restoring the status quo at the start of the series. The Titans that remain between Wall Maria and Wall Rose would then be a finite number that could be hunted down and people could resettle their old land. The goal isn't to "stop" the Titans so much as get everyone's land back. Stopping the Titans permanently would be something for another day.