Board Thread:Manga/@comment-25933225-20200104141024/@comment-33077628-20200611151658

I believe that Levi didn't notice that titan, and I thank you for making me realize it wasn't a titan that came literally out of the ground. What I'm saying is, he could have intentionally left one of the titans he killed, mutilated but alive instead, to feed Zeke to it. That was his own plan he had just said before Zeke shouted. I think it was a hard to understand choice from Levi, and a poor choice of the author.

I thought Zeke was pretty dead there, but I can accept that he wasn't just so that things make "less no sense", and now that you've mentioned it, maybe the reason the author did this was to prepare us for what was yet to come, Eren's head catching in chap 119. He probably wanted to create a precedent so people wouldn't say it was a Deus Ex Maquina then.

Even so, I still think it counts as DeusEx because it's a character doing something that can't be done at the nick of time. Because the author couldn't justify a good, plausible reason for this to be happening, honestly he just shouldn't have created this situation to begin with.

As for Reiner, I think the battle of Shiganshina was alright, the abuse of plot armor there served a purpose, to show us a cool battle and the things the titans can do. The problem is that it's always Reiner, he keeps getting in and out of these almost death situations. If the author wanted to abuse so much of him at the end, he should have spared him at the beginning.