TBF, she felt bad about torturing the town. But she was fully aware that they were being held captive. She was just delusional about them being happier under control without freedom. Once she accepted her reality, it didn’t seem like a huge leap to her MoM self.
I’d have to watch it again, but my take was that she had subconsciously created Westview, and even when she realized what was happening, she was in deep denial and couldn’t really control it. She didn’t murder innocent people, especially friends and kids. She didn’t even kill the soldiers threatening her family and desecrating her husband’s corpse.
I don’t know if she could control it. But she also never tried to. Regardless, she totally knew that they were trapped and she didn’t care.
However, she was in denial about herself being good. She thought the trapped people were happy. Hence she also didn’t murder. That delusion broke at the end of WV. People just assumed she would go good rather than going further off the deep-end. But with the Darkhold there was only one direction to go.
TBF, she felt bad about torturing the town. But she was fully aware that they were being held captive. She was just delusional about them being happier under control without freedom. Once she accepted her reality, it didn’t seem like a huge leap to her MoM self.
I’d have to watch it again, but my take was that she had subconsciously created Westview, and even when she realized what was happening, she was in deep denial and couldn’t really control it. She didn’t murder innocent people, especially friends and kids. She didn’t even kill the soldiers threatening her family and desecrating her husband’s corpse.
I don’t know if she could control it. But she also never tried to. Regardless, she totally knew that they were trapped and she didn’t care.
However, she was in denial about herself being good. She thought the trapped people were happy. Hence she also didn’t murder. That delusion broke at the end of WV. People just assumed she would go good rather than going further off the deep-end. But with the Darkhold there was only one direction to go.