Quote Originally Posted by Psyren View Post
I can and will compare the two scenes of a hitherto unseen puppet master, who sees not the protagonist but themselves as the hero, and who has not just engineered the arduous journey the heroes took to reach him but the metaphysics of the world itself - tasked with dumping exposition onto both the protagonist(s) and the audience that will reframe the conflict they have been fighting toward for the entire work by revealing the consequences behind each choice they must make at the end. Just as the writers did.
If you say so Ozymandias

“Adrian Veidt: I did the right thing, didn't I? It all worked out in the end.
Dr. Manhattan: 'In the end'? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.”
Points to the Oracle sign on top of her kitchen. It is the Latin version of the Egyptian maxim that first appeared on the outer temple walls that Ozymandias built around an earlier temple.

What do you see?