swodinskyluca In all seriousness though, I find the core conceit: that the people who broke the thing are the best to fix the thing, incredibly weird. Like imagine a 2010 headline like: 'I waterboarded people who turned out to be innocent and now I can tell you how to solve endless war'...
swodinskyluca There's a term, I think from Malka Older, "narrative disease" & that's what we've got a bad case of here, narrative poisonings, where the perception of a plot & character arc like from a movie is overriding common sense. People see the hero's journey happening and lose all sense