Evrard's Black Stone Road Trip (meta)

So now that we can reasonably assume we have the entirety of Evrard’s Black Stone Road Trip plan on the table, I wanted to talk about it a little. Setting aside any discussion of the effectiveness of its timeskip/flashback format, and its effect on the characters and emotional impact, the plan itself I at first found really unconvincing. But now that we have the full picture, I’ve been rotating it to find the angle I think makes the most sense.

‘Cause come on, I think a lot of us raised an eyebrow when Evrard the cultist-killer decided on the spot to trust Arthur, of all people, to protect the Destroys the Universe device. But at this point I think it’s clear that he didn’t. Arthur wasn’t the trusted anchor runner in their fellowship: he was the patsy.

It was a gamble and it didn’t work. And the show spends no time post Antoine reveal to clarify or recontextualize the trip as a whole, there simply isn’t time, so I dunno if any of what I’m supposing below is the intended conclusion, but it makes the most sense to me.