AoT never preaches about right or wrong choices

LLBird said:
"You aren't wrong. If you want to, do it. Eren, the difference between your decision and ours is experience. But you don't have to rely on that. Choose. Believe in yourself. Or believe in the Survey Corps and me. I don't know... I never have. I can believe in my own abilities or the choices of companions I trust. But no one ever knows how it will turn out. So choose for yourself whichever decision you'll regret least." - Levi Ackerman

So in Episode 21, Eren chooses to trust his comrades and they die. So by using Eren's mentality, trusting his comrades was "wrong" and he should've fought Annie from the start. So Eren decides to change his choice and fights Annie, and what is the result? He loses, is captured, and has to be rescued by other people. So using the same logic, trusting himself was also "wrong".

Why did Isayama write a scenario in which both choices did not produce a favourable outcome? I think the answer lies with what Levi said earlier. Levi never once said that Eren's decision to fight Annie (in Episode 19) was right or wrong, because he never knows what the outcome will be. Why would humanity's strongest soldier say he isn't certain about the outcome? Because he accepts his own powerlessness; no matter how strong Levi is (because of his Ackerman blood) there will be times when things won't work out because of how the world works. It's massive, unfair and beyond our control. The same thing can be applied to Eren. Even with his Titan powers, Eren isn't immune to losing something.

So let me go back to when Eren considered transforming to fight Annie in Episode 19. What Eren really wanted was that he did not have to trust anyone, that he was so powerful to control every single factor, that he could fight on his own, kill Annie, and not have to suffer the loss of anyone. Quite a scene out of a power fantasy. However, in a world like AoT where there is so much uncertainty, a scene like that can never be guaranteed. What Eren has to learn to accept from this whole experience is his own powerlessness and that there are things that are genuinely out of his control.

watsym said:
try to pick the best choice you can accept and hope it works out.

LLBird said:
"You aren't wrong. If you want to, do it. Eren, the difference between your decision and ours is experience. But you don't have to rely on that. Choose. Believe in yourself. Or believe in the Survey Corps and me. I don't know... I never have. I can believe in my own abilities or the choices of companions I trust. But no one ever knows how it will turn out. So choose for yourself whichever decision you'll regret least." - Levi Ackerman

So in Episode 21, Eren chooses to trust his comrades and they die. So by using Eren's mentality, trusting his comrades was "wrong" and he should've fought Annie from the start. So Eren decides to change his choice and fights Annie, and what is the result? He loses, is captured, and has to be rescued by other people. So using the same logic, trusting himself was also "wrong".

Why did Isayama write a scenario in which both choices did not produce a favourable outcome? I think the answer lies with what Levi said earlier. Levi never once said that Eren's decision to fight Annie (in Episode 19) was right or wrong, because he never knows what the outcome will be. Why would humanity's strongest soldier say he isn't certain about the outcome? Because he accepts his own powerlessness; no matter how strong Levi is (because of his Ackerman blood) there will be times when things won't work out because of how the world works. It's massive, unfair and beyond our control. The same thing can be applied to Eren. Even with his Titan powers, Eren isn't immune to losing something.

So let me go back to when Eren considered transforming to fight Annie in Episode 19. What Eren really wanted was that he did not have to trust anyone, that he was so powerful to control every single factor, that he could fight on his own, kill Annie, and not have to suffer the loss of anyone. Quite a scene out of a power fantasy. However, in a world like AoT where there is so much uncertainty, a scene like that can never be guaranteed. What Eren has to learn to accept from this whole experience is his own powerlessness and that there are things that are genuinely out of his control.

LLBird said:
"You aren't wrong. If you want to, do it. Eren, the difference between your decision and ours is experience. But you don't have to rely on that. Choose. Believe in yourself. Or believe in the Survey Corps and me. I don't know... I never have. I can believe in my own abilities or the choices of companions I trust. But no one ever knows how it will turn out. So choose for yourself whichever decision you'll regret least." - Levi Ackerman

So in Episode 21, Eren chooses to trust his comrades and they die. So by using Eren's mentality, trusting his comrades was "wrong" and he should've fought Annie from the start. So Eren decides to change his choice and fights Annie, and what is the result? He loses, is captured, and has to be rescued by other people. So using the same logic, trusting himself was also "wrong".

Why did Isayama write a scenario in which both choices did not produce a favourable outcome? I think the answer lies with what Levi said earlier. Levi never once said that Eren's decision to fight Annie (in Episode 19) was right or wrong, because he never knows what the outcome will be. Why would humanity's strongest soldier say he isn't certain about the outcome? Because he accepts his own powerlessness; no matter how strong Levi is (because of his Ackerman blood) there will be times when things won't work out because of how the world works. It's massive, unfair and beyond our control. The same thing can be applied to Eren. Even with his Titan powers, Eren isn't immune to losing something.

So let me go back to when Eren considered transforming to fight Annie in Episode 19. What Eren really wanted was that he did not have to trust anyone, that he was so powerful to control every single factor, that he could fight on his own, kill Annie, and not have to suffer the loss of anyone. Quite a scene out of a power fantasy. However, in a world like AoT where there is so much uncertainty, a scene like that can never be guaranteed. What Eren has to learn to accept from this whole experience is his own powerlessness and that there are things that are genuinely out of his control.