I'm not a comic book villain. Do you seriously think I would explain my master stroke to you if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome?
@LordJohnWhorfin There are are lot of deus ex machina opportunities surrounding Dr Manhattan. I think Adrian was counting on the horrible correctness of his assumption to convince the Doc not to interfere.
@jonson True, and now that I think about it, that line was actually directed at Rorschach and, um… Owlman.
I guess the nit I'm picking is more the idea that if Dr. M. truly lived/perceived non-linearly across a presumably very long existence, then he should have been able to see past the "tachyon" blah, blah or whatever Adrian was supposed to be doing to mask his plan. Whether that would have changed his mind or steeled him against Adrian's argument, I don't know. And at this point, I'm confusing details of the comicbook and the movie anyway.
@LordJohnWhorfin Ah, but he already had that shit *sorted*.
I guess the nit I'm picking is more the idea that if Dr. M. truly lived/perceived non-linearly across a presumably very long existence, then he should have been able to see past the "tachyon" blah, blah or whatever Adrian was supposed to be doing to mask his plan. Whether that would have changed his mind or steeled him against Adrian's argument, I don't know. And at this point, I'm confusing details of the comicbook and the movie anyway.