Quote Originally Posted by Rulakir View Post
My feeling has always been that to justify a character performing an act as severe as the sundering, intentionally and with full knowledge of the devastating future, the reasoning had to be iron clad. My POV is that the writers failed to make this case and it wasn't just with Hermes. All of Venat's reasoning is faulty.

If I'm to accept that this was the only way, that what we ended up with was the best case scenario, then they needed to do a lot better. Otherwise, I have no reason not to believe there was a better outcome that Venat sabotaged either in ignorance or hubris.
Failed might be the wrong way of looking at it. I think its very intentionally portayed as a questionable decision, but one that we as the sundered clearly benefited from. They might've pushed the sympathy for both sides a bit too hard in EW though. I prefered Shb levels, where the villain was sympathetic but still clearly a villain (for us anyways).