I think Eugene's ruse was brilliant and well-executed. He plays the part of an arrogant post-doc sycophant research-grant-baby to absolute perfection and he is utterly convincing. He isn't the stereotypical near-sighted, suck-up bookworm "nerd" like Milton (The Govenor's Milton, not Paradise Lost Milton, who now that I think of it was also a nearsighted, suck-up bookworm nerd). Eugene is much more convincing as a professional scientist and while everybody doubts his courage and strength, nobody doubts his story.
So I never really understood why Eugene confesses to the group that the entire "let's save the world in Washington" quest is just a hoax to get them to protect him along the way. Eugene is smart enough to know there's likely nothing left in D.C., almost certainly no infrastructure. If they made it all the way to the city, Eugene can simply try to access one of the government plazas, make a few half-hearted attempts to raise someone, then declare it hopeless and eventually move on. I doubt Rick or Abraham would risk their lives to try accessing an inaccessible and likely abandoned laboratory. And if it turns out the government is up and running and they can somehow verify Eugene's story, it seems likely they'd have bigger things to think about at that point.
Why does he confess? Why not just carry-on with the ruse and cross that bridge when you get to it? People talk about Eugene's lack of an endgame but to me it seems pretty basic to me that he had a perfect plan if he just carried it out to its logical conclusion.
Submitted September 29, 2018 at 01:23PM by DickDoucheman https://ift.tt/2QnnXQD
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