I don’t think people understand how his portals work. I’ve read the comics years ago, so I might be wrong, but I don’t remember him being able to physically move the portals around once they are created. He simply chooses where they’ll appear, so he wouldn’t be able to force Mark or the Maulers into it.
But also, the areas where he opens a portal correlate to the same place in another dimension. This means that when he helped the Maulers escape prison he had to find a place deep enough to be able to reach them down there. That’s probably also how he was able to save that particular Angstrom we saw at the beginning of the episode, by creating a portal on the ground so that he could fall into.
So that’s a possible way he could have helped, by making a portal on the ground, but like he himself said, he doesn’t have the knowledge of the alternate dimensions (that’s why he needed the machine in the first place), so there’s no way for him to know which dimension could have a crater or sufficient space to pull Mark through a portal on the ground unless he did his research first (like how he did with the Maulers).
All this, plus the fact that the rest of the Maulers were grabbing onto him, so some of them might have fallen in too, which wouldn’t be much help.
Angstrom was overwhelmed by the machine, getting all this new information injected into his brain, plus the stress from the situation and it’s clear that he wasn’t acting rationally at the moment.
No matter how smart you are, we all make irrational decisions from time to time. This just happened to be one of them and with terrible consequences at that.
I don’t think people understand how his portals work. I’ve read the comics years ago, so I might be wrong, but I don’t remember him being able to physically move the portals around once they are created. He simply chooses where they’ll appear, so he wouldn’t be able to force Mark or the Maulers into it.
But also, the areas where he opens a portal correlate to the same place in another dimension. This means that when he helped the Maulers escape prison he had to find a place deep enough to be able to reach them down there. That’s probably also how he was able to save that particular Angstrom we saw at the beginning of the episode, by creating a portal on the ground so that he could fall into.
So that’s a possible way he could have helped, by making a portal on the ground, but like he himself said, he doesn’t have the knowledge of the alternate dimensions (that’s why he needed the machine in the first place), so there’s no way for him to know which dimension could have a crater or sufficient space to pull Mark through a portal on the ground unless he did his research first (like how he did with the Maulers).
All this, plus the fact that the rest of the Maulers were grabbing onto him, so some of them might have fallen in too, which wouldn’t be much help.
Angstrom was overwhelmed by the machine, getting all this new information injected into his brain, plus the stress from the situation and it’s clear that he wasn’t acting rationally at the moment.
No matter how smart you are, we all make irrational decisions from time to time. This just happened to be one of them and with terrible consequences at that.