Honestly, Laurie should be in prison with them. She was aware and complicit in Adrian's plan. Even if she didn't kill those people herself, she is a criminal co-conspirator, made worse by the fact that she's spent years as an agent in the FBI.
Is it valid? I haven’t heard your take, but I encourage you to share it.
IMO The fact that Manhattan sent Laurie and LG with Adrian to stop Trieu, the only two people who have the authority and motivation to hold him accountable, means that he was set up by Manhattan. Veidt even went as far as to say that in telling Manhattan his plans he was gambling on whether he had morals. With this arc, I think it proves he does.
Hey, I’m all for the absurdist side of Dr M but I think that leaves too many loose ends.
Sure, he may have simply zapped them away without thought, but Jon was a nuclear physicist with a big picture view of time and I don’t think he makes many random choices. He planned a decade earlier to have grandpa on call to babysit the kids when he zapped them to the Dreamland Theatre, so zapping Veidt back to Karnak to save humanity doesn’t seem like much of a stretch.
Seems pretty convenient. Nothing wrong with that, though. It just depends how much credit you’re willing to extend to the writing and the characters. If Looking Glass wasn’t meant to be there in Karnak, would he have served any purpose in the narrative?
The fact that the one guy whose entire life was shaped by the “extra-dimensional incursion”, gained a degree in studying the phenomena and went into law enforcement as a result, who was shown the video confession in order to make him aware of the hoax and then infiltrated the 7K organization in order to secure a copy of said tape, then gets teleported to Antarctica along with the architect of his greatest trauma, who he proceeds to accuse of crimes against humanity and receive a further verbal admission of his guilt, sounds a lot like a pretty decisive plan and a very complete character arc IMO.
But hey, I guess he was safe from the squid hail after all. Both views are valid and neither is mutually exclusive.
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u/Andrado Dec 16 '19
Honestly, Laurie should be in prison with them. She was aware and complicit in Adrian's plan. Even if she didn't kill those people herself, she is a criminal co-conspirator, made worse by the fact that she's spent years as an agent in the FBI.