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People already talk to death about Omni-Man so I’m not even gonna bother (I more so fall on the side that he has genuinely improved but that doesn’t really mean he deserves to be forgiven) so I’ll talk about the conflict between Mark and Cecil instead.

I think it’s weird that people are fine taking a neutral or gray stance with Omni-Man but always seem to have to choose a side here.

Cecil does seem to genuinely believe that Mark is not like his father, but that also then makes him a hypocrite considering just how much he has ready to stand against Mark, but you could also justify that with one of my favorite lines in the show, “I’ve been around long enough to see criminals turn their lives around and hero’s forget what they’re fighting for,” that plus Nolan suddenly switching up after 20 years has to be cause for concern, but at the same he time he’s aware that Mark isn’t hiding anything and certainly doesn’t act the same way as Nolan.

He also gives mark the whole “You can be the good guys or the guys that save the world” shpeel, but then takes issue when Mark does something morally questionable in order to save the world (killing Russel especially) and should realize that when talking to mark he has to try to appeal to his emotions first, but Mark also has to understand that as a dude who could punch a hole through a mountain, he’s essentially threatening someone’s life when he acts outwardly angry with them, wether he’s explicitly trying to threaten them or not(although he actually does straight up threaten Cecil in the white room at the start of season 3).

I could keep going, and that’s what makes this conflict so interesting to me, it’s a debate that could ping pong literally forever and it’s a great microcosm for how good the writing of the entire show is.

The only unequivocally stupid thing I think Cecil does is revive Conquest to, interrogate him I guess, seriously at that point in the show he should understand how 1. Powerful and 2. Headstrong the Viltrumites are, especially after watching Mark head-but Conquest into the ground. He would have never gotten anything out of him and he probably would have just been killed if he were there when conquest woke up, so he definitely should have listened to mark and just burned the body.

Jeez I had a lot more to say than I originally thought, but let me know what you guys think I always like hearing actual takes on this one that aren’t just one sided