User blog comment:Ninja-Sensei/Episode 187: Change, review and commentary/@comment-173.66.184.250-20140624010337/@comment-7418318-20140625111257

I don't think you can really blame them for making a cliff-hanger in that situation. It's just one additional way to make a continuation of the anime more likely. There are far worse issues with the SnK anime's last two episodes, like making Levi - who's supposed to be the ultimate bad-ass - look like a lame and stupid glory-hogger and negating most of Eren's character development among others.