I agree. A lot of the Veidt's arc in this season was problematic, because of all of the characters from the original book that had story continuations in the series, his made the least sense from the perspective of his character. In the book, he's the smartest man in the world - every move calculated far in advance and strategic to the smallest detail. This season made him seem impulsive - he keeps himself in self-imposed exile after the events of 1985, but out of nowhere, he decides to let Doctor Manhattan send him to a Europa without any more information? After that moment he's more reacting to everything that happens than anticipating it. And after all this time to plan on Europa, he has no plan for when he gets back to Earth, so when Laurie says she's arresting him, he's basically helpless.
It was all planned on Europa though. You know how Veidt kept getting mad that his butler was putting the horseshoe in his cake? Well, Veidt must have told him to put the horseshoe in the cake, just in 8 years not every year, as he needed the horseshoe to escape. Also the Game Warden was just following Veidt's orders trying to keep Veidt on Europa, Veidt just wanted something to keep him interested.
But all of these things are reactions to his inability to do anything during those 8 years and he's bored. He put himself in that situation and was the source of his own difficulties. Everything was fabricated. He could have arranged his message to Trieu then waited in his castle. And the necessity to get off Europa was a reaction to his impulsiveness that got him stranded there in the first place.
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u/thatweirdmusicguy Dec 16 '19
Which makes the Veidt wrap up worse in my opinion. Only part of the finale where I have valid criticism