Why would he write of Viltrumite weaknesses to begin with? He was pretty dedicated to his eventual takeover. So why would he ever write anything which could ever come back to bite him or his people in the ass?
Just seems very odd.
Why would he write of Viltrumite weaknesses to begin with? He was pretty dedicated to his eventual takeover. So why would he ever write anything which could ever come back to bite him or his people in the ass?
Just seems very odd.
There are two possibilities here.
Nolan just wrote what he knew and wasn’t specifically intending to document Viltrumite weaknesses.
Nolan was specifically documenting Viltrumite weaknesses and selling them as sci-fi.
If he was a hardened Viltrumite at the time of writing, option 1 makes him look dumb and option 2 begs the question of why he would do it.
If he was already starting to soften at the time of writing, option 1 still seems dumb, but there’s now an explanation for it. Option 2 looks like he’s intentionally making a backup plan, which is the most interesting interpretation to me.