User blog comment:Miskos3/Chapter 56, Review/@comment-424719-20140407185513

Interesting point about the Beast Titan, they do look kind of similar, though the 3DMD does dispel that. My major hope coming from this chapter is that Levi is not a traitor. I theorize that he took the name Ackerman since he has no family and respected Cap'n who trained him. Then he grew angry at the craziness of Cap'n and left, which is why no one has ever mentioned his last name being Ackerman, he stopped using it. I have no idea about Cap'n and his connection with Mikasa, I can't even begin to think about that.

As for Erwin's plan, I recall wondering how this plan was going to fail and am kind of dissapointed. Erwin 'Desert Fox' Smith is far too intelligent to let something like this happen. He never met Reeves and was banking entirely on what Levi thought. I thought Reeves was going to betray them and he had very little incentive not to, just some 'agreement' he was forced into. Smith should have theorized that Reeves was going to betray them and then had some manner of backup plan. This plan would have helped even though Reeves did not betray them, because it still ended up with the two most important people in the hands of very capable killers. What was wrong with the old plan? You lure these guys to Eren/Historia and then kill most of them since you outnumber them and have the element of surprise. Then Cap'n would be getting tortured by Levi/Hange and the two most important people would still be ok.

I sincerely hope that Erwin at least has some backup plan and next chapter it will be revealed that he is going to do something about it.