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Originally Posted by kitten320
Erwin clearly did bad job there. Eren alone killed more than Annie in just one episode.
And he was not even in berserk mode yet. Eren went Berserk after Annie smashed his face in and went for the wall. Until then Eren was fully sane and simply ended up destroying everything in his way. It is especially noticeable right after the scene with church.
Annie rushed to an open area, sees people and changes the course and just keeps running to another open area.
Then comes Eren and randomly destroys a tower that wasn't even in his way.
He throws Annie on the buildings and smashes through them without a care.
Annie on the other hand switched Eren off in one hit and destroyed only part of one building.
Second building she destroyed is in open area when she had to finally stop and turn around to face Eren. She used it as momentum for a stop.
Annie literally destroyed only 2 buildings in whole episode and in both cases it was a needed action.
a) To stop and face Eren before he snaps her neck from behind
b) To effectively stop Eren from moving in near future which she did succeed in manga. Eren never caught up with her.
I'm sorry, but Eren came far more as an ass in this episode than Annie. Doesn't help that he never actually seemed to regret any of that.
And he is an MC!
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The question to ask you is was there any better alternative?
For the record, Annie is an experienced fighter as we've seen and everybody knows that even in Titan form Eren is no match for her.
1. Erwin made a plan to capture Annie outside the walls and a lot of people died to make it happen and it was a complete failure. To try again would be suicidal.
2. Plan 2, capture Annie within the walls and lure her into a space where she couldn't transform. Would've succeeded had she not had that ring in her finger and avoided casualties.
3. Plan 3, capture Annie using those cannons which they did but she was able to break free and then roam around causing damage (Titans running in enclosed spaces will cause damage no matter what. She could minimize because she's a more experienced fighter and just damaging buildings would slow her down)
4. Plan 4, use all remaining fighters and Eren to stop her no matter the costs.
So I don't see how you can criticize Erwin when in fact he literally had 2 back-up plans to his first one which involved quietly capturing her and minimizing damage. Plan 4 was literally a last resort because Annie was doing whatever she could to escape and he could not let her escape no matter the costs.
As for the civilian casualties, it was inevitable and while it's inexcusable it was a rude wake-up call to those people who wouldn't hesitate to send people like the Recon Corps to their deaths to protect them.
It was also a wake-up call to the Military police who should be the most elite out of all the soldiers yet they can't do squat in the face of a Titan.
In fact the first thing the Military Police should've done was to evacuate and get the citizens out of the way rather than just stand there and stare.
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In Annie's defense until we know the reasoning she and the rest of her allies have for doing what they're doing I don't think she can simply be deemed evil. I'm not saying she's good either, but for all we know the deaths that resulted in her running through the countryside and attracting a herd of titans was simply a necessary sacrifice akin to Erwin's sacrifices.
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Yeah try telling that to Eren and the others who lost their families when the first walls were broken. Annie clearly is part of the group that was involved in that (Special Titans like the Armored and Colossal). Were those deaths a necessary sacrifice?
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*Eren still on the top, eh?*
