Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180708204808/@comment-35822279-20180714033743

Fire Eater wrote: And it was impossible for Eren to plan this out with the Corps instead of going AWOL first because.......? And he couldn't account for the threat posed by the Marley brats because......?

The current direction, topped with a horrific death scene is officially turning me off to whatever's next. Look I'm not against a complex multi-tiered story but this is just insane. - Eren went AWOL because Hange and the Corps were not going to attack Marley and were commited to following Kiyomi/Zeke's plan which would put the fate of Paradis squarely on Historia and her progeny (AKA death by proxy of being a shifter + being a walking WMD) and Eren didn't agree with that. This could mean two things which is that Eren is unwilling to compromise Historia's freedom in exchange for security simply because he believes everyone is entitlted to freedom or less likely but still possible is that Eren is in love with Historia and is unwilling to sacrifice her because of that (This could be the reason why he understood Falco's motivation easily as Falco trains to prevent Gabi from shortening her life and Eren might be willing to burn his soul away in order to protect Historia) but both of these are just personal theories on why Eren is willing to go to such lengths for Historia's safety.

- Secondly Eren spent some time in Marley's military so he probably knew what to expect (+ Zeke's insider info) but he couldn't plan for everything like Pieck being smart enough to perform a jail break with the Panzer unit or Gabi flying up to the blimp on a corpse (That's a one in a million chance) and still I'm probably repeating myself at this point but this operation was still a complete success (the only drawbacks are diplomacy is dead and now there deadlocked into a conflict that they still hold a significant advantage in unless one of Marley's allies has a fully functioning air force or the atomic bomb) and most military leaders would probably be pleased with losing so little soldiers in exchange for such a complete victory + you gotta remember Sasha was a career soldier and they are prepared to sacrifice there lives in the line of duty and I can't remember a battle of this size in real life that had zero fatalities like losing 8 was unrealistic enough (seriously do Marley troops have the aim of StormTroopers?)