The end of the chapter was quite nice. Rather than getting your usual gruesome, horrifying, and very sad character death, instead Hange just falls... and then she wakes up surrounded by her comrades, smiling.
I'm not a fan of how they're
still whining and moaning about "oh, evil Eldians! Euthanization or destroying the rest of the world was surely the only option!" and so on, but I've already ragged on and on about that in my prior AoT chapter thoughts.
*Sigh*
Interesting that Falco and Annie went back. The heroes need every bit of help they can get. Falco might be inexperienced but he could still be immensely valuable if he was airdropped onto Eren's neck and just started ripping through the nape towards Eren's real body. That said, if Falco fell down, he'd probably be a goner. Annie would be an incredibly useful extra titan on hand, but she's going back? So that means it's really just up to Reiner and Armin to carry the day (since Pieck's titan isn't all that useful for actually attacking, only for mobility).
I'm guessing that the ammo is going to be used an improvised explosive and dropped onto Eren's neck to break through crystalization.
Hm... so the final battle will be at an airbase, then? Makes sense. The plane the heroes are on now will probably be destroyed during the final battle, and the heroes will need air travel to get back to Paradis after Eren dies, since they can't travel by foot to the Marlean port because the land has been totally desolated for hundreds of miles, and all of the boats are gone.
I wonder if the Marleyans will be able to scramble their aircraft to bomb Eren. Would be really nice if rest of the world was actually able to
do something. After the timeskip, we were greeted with a demonstration of how modern weapons pose a letahl threat to titan users (when Renier got blown up by a barrage from warships), and it was mentioned that Marleyan's advantage through using titan power was becoming irrelevant in the face of modern weapons, so it'd be nice if that came back around and if those modern weapons actually legit hurt Eren and contributed significantly to the fight.