![]() 3.) Retreat against overwhelming odds/Engage in delaying actions” would be something he’d have been pushing the group- as Lee is the RESPONSIBLE member of the group yet for some reason during this his common sense dries up like a puddle under a Sunny Day. Lee, Zinnia, and everyone else dropped the ball hard here- especially with all of the questioning Lee’s done about things like this with his lawyer you would think “1. Steven Stone would have been an excellent first call to make, as “Eco-Terroists setting up shop with some crazy device on a volcano and they look ready to activate it” is more than enough to get someone like Steven Stone on the first teleport out there with a freaking strike team. Just because he CAN act as a LEO for situations like these doesn’t mean that he absolutely has to- more importantly, one of the first duties as a First Responder of any situation is to establish communications and let people know that shit is going down. The MOMENT he confirmed that Team Magma was site on scene and threatened civilians with likely very painful deaths in order to keep them silent he should have contacted the League immediately. So for suddenly Lee to grow an Adventure Boner and forget that there ARE PEOPLE to handle things like this- like a Gym Leader in Moore and his granddaughter, and the Lavaridge police, and the Pokémon Rangers, and the PWL Elite Trainers, and, and, and. Especially when it came to Law Enforcement activities and actions. Secondly, Lee Henson is someone whose NEVER tried to take up more responsibility than he already has, and has always deferred to the subject matter experts when applicable. I think he could have just called him to let him know what was up. The only thing that irks me about this chapter is something I pointed out last time: That's a man's mistake, and a man's consequence to bear.ĭouble-Edit: I'm dearly hoping this isn't going to end up being about the ambiguity of Maxie conditioning people, with a running question-game of "What will it take to break that Conditioning?" I made it through "The Slog" of late-mid-point Wheel of Time with a smile and my love for the series undimmed, but not even a Reader's Endurance tempered in that greatest of all furnaces could bear up under such a plot-device. He's choosing to turn his back on everything he professed to believe in, knowingly. He's not ignorantly making a mistake bigger than he comprehends. Brendan had internalized, even under the moment-by-moment demands of an emergent crisis, what his responsibilities as a League Trainer are. If I'm not misremembering things, that makes this even worse. The person who didn't snap out of their fantasy-driven delusion when a Credible Potential Extinction-Level-Event was plopped on the table can never, ever, EVER AGAIN be trusted with getting milk from the corner store, let alone with something as dangerous as a team of Pokemon.Įdit: If I'm not misremembering things, wasn't Brendan the one who read Lee the riot act, about the moral and legal responsibilities that Lab Trainers are beholden to? During the incident with the fire, before Lee went in and discovered it was the Mother Manetric retrieving her Egg? If Brendan's allowed to walk that back, I'd have to be out. ![]() This is a Vader-Leading-the-501st-into-the-Jedi-Temple moment. Lee's explanation is succinct, the only reasonable outline of where Magma could ever possibly hope to find a source of nigh-unlimited Terrakinesis to reshape the entire topology of the planet, and corroborated by the surprised reactions of the boy's erstwhile new allies. ![]() People KNOW when the truth's being spoken during high-pressure, shit-just-got-real moments. There is no way in any reality he didn't see Tabitha's and Courtney's reactions to Lee's knowledge-bomb. Brendan is apparently willing to allow two friends to die for some ass. Maxie wasn't even trying particularly hard to keep up the appearance of a misunderstood visionary. This has nothing to do with infatuation-derived loyalty, not anymore. The inhuman construct-telepath is right there.īrendan has every reason to know Maxie is offering him nothing but the sop of not seeing his former friends blood splatter on the ground. He would know, the instant that Maxie said he wasn't going to allow Lee and Zinnia to leave with knowledge of Magma's operations, that the two of them would fight to the death to keep someone they certainly believe to be a terrorist leader out of their minds. NO, Brendan is not an idiot, and he of all people just learned what Telepathic Intrusion by an unfriendly or even neutrally-predisposed telepath is like, and his experience with Ninetales was simply a bit of casual chit-chat.
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