"You know, I'm starting to think about the crushing guilt of leaving so many people to- Son of a bitch, they cancelled my netflix subscription!"
I feel like the Government/Police wouldn't be releasing sensitive details about the case like a previously thought dead important politician being the culprit, especially when we keep getting told that the politicians want to keep everything on the downlow to an almost suicidal degree.
Why does a museum curator have so much power over matters that have nothing to do with her occupation!? You could be the president's personal archivist and there's still no chance in hell you'd have the authority to boss around the police guarding a suspected terrorist.
"Son, if Bryan here wanted to do me harm, neither of you little twits would make much difference." Benson has spent this entire book getting dunked on unless he has his assailant completely at his mercy, his greatest feat was holding off a starved little Asian guy who barely scrapes by living in the underground; he ain't doing shit.
Two side characters who've done nothing but facilitate a pointless filler plot have received more engagement and development than any of the actual main characters.
God forbid Benson has some self-reflection on how his terrible decisions based on thin fucking evidence led to terrible things happening, we wouldn't want Benson having to learn anything. Self-improvement is for stalkers, child!
Our great detective is stumped by a woman making the most obvious 'wink wink, nudge nudge' hints that she has something else planned imaginable.
Also, I was fucking right, they can monitor his plant's visuals! How is there so little information about people's lives when the security guys have such easy access to everything!?
Didn't she literally show them the inside of the book? These police officers have never heard of the classic 'cut hidey hole in book' routine?
"You're on trial for terrorism, might as well add some extra murder charges!"
"I'm a priority prisoner, but thankfully that doesn't mean anyone bothered with obvious security measures."
So the plan is fake health emergency, incapacitate the guards and just hope the guy watching the security camera doesn't raise the alarm?
I do like the joke though.
Somehow the door managed to remain open throughout the entire scuffle with the guards.
So, beforehand it was impossible to disappear because of all the oversight, but now there's a bunch of exploitable blindspots for Benson to use now that he needs them.
Benson, weren't you the police chief? Wouldn't you already be overseeing your men's training? The convenient laziness to help your escape is already stupid enough, but bitching about it only makes it worse.
Benson's heading back to Laraby's apartment? God damn it, Benson, this is not a time for a wank at your favourite tug spot.
"You know me, Pavel. Am I killer?" He doesn't know you at all! In the small amount of time he's spent with you, the best impression he'd get is that you flaunt the rules, get easily distracted by vendettas and make stupid decisions. I think he very much could see you as a killer. There's a reason why he felt he needed to double check you weren't a child predator.
Oh, right, an 'honourable' man.
Shut the fuck up about your love nest in the crime scene, it's fucking weird!
"We will somehow survive destroying our only home before we even get close to the only habitable planet around and start a colony with 47 uneducated morons." Sounds legit.
Oh, yeah, right, exploding a fucking nuke in the middle of the ship won't destroy anything vital or leave major areas of the ship an irradiated hell.
Well, they've had sex a bunch of times, I guess that's enough to consider this earned.
An entire chapter so worthless I had nothing to say about it, though I just realized something: Why does Benson have to do this alone? Why doesn't girlfriend and Chad!Pevel tell the rest of the police force that Mei has explained where the next terrorist attack is gonna take place and route troops there immediately?
I think the lights suddenly turning on is gonna be a bigger tell than some metal squeaking.
I imagine doing a Kimura 'Where's the earth-shattering kaboom?' bit as Benson gets knocked out.
And wow, how anticlimactic, the nukes were pussy nukes and Kimura's crew were completely outmatched by Benson.
Bullshit. Benson was wearing a shitty patch-work suit that was being held together by duct tape and had already taken his helmet off, no way he survives while Kimura gets blasted that close to the pussy nukes.
Benson's survival was not as convenient as initially believed - it was more! One of his shots struck the casing of the nuclear device and caused the right amount of deformation to prevent a full-on nuclear implosion. In other words, Benson *accidentally* saved the entire human race. Devorah got her gun back, pleased as can be, and introduces some enjoyable snark via hearsay and that's good enough for me.
The ship, as mentioned before, is fine - surprisingly fine, too! Awwwwwssuuum!
It almost feels like nothing was ever at stake and every possible threat was overcome by pure dumb luck.
I recall her being described by Patrick, in his own words, as smoking hot in her first appearance?
Hey, maybe Patrick's a Granny-chaser, don't judge!
So basically, humanity can get fucked because of white guilt.
My question is: Why is this a secret? Seriously, this planet is humanity's last hope, if they don't colonize it they die, they've known this since before the Ark even took off and they practically control the entire populous down to their genetics. You're telling me the government didn't think they could convince or indoctrinate the public over the years to support saving humanity? This isn't an empire expanding for the sake of expanding and taking whatever they come across, this is a dying race who need a place to live otherwise they'll face extinction. It's not like they have to subjugate the natives, especially when the natives don't seem to have anything of value for humanity to take.
Mother of God.
