User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 850 - Oda's Still Got It/@comment-24850639-20161222133546/@comment-24850639-20161222210937

Haha not literally upset, I guess disappointed is a better word. Disappointed that I didn't stick to my guns, and started to actually have some sympathy for her when it looked like she might be sacrificing herself. You're right though, that was probably the best executed flip-flop of the series, only CP9 probably did it better. Even though I always had in inkling she was bad, seeing just how crazy she was this chapter was nice contrast to the "too innocent" girl we had gotten to know. She enjoyed talking about killing people so casually, and did not hold back with the insults of Sanji and the Straw Hats.

@DuelMaster - Valid point. It just seems foolhardy to assume that they'll be able to handle whatever contingency plan Germa has up their sleeve. I imagine Germa at least put SOME consideration into this not working out quite the way they hoped. Judge could have a button that blows up the entire science lab, or an extra reserve of weapons and soldiers that only he knows about, some kind of DoomsDay what-if plan. Allowing Reiju to escape with her life is essentially a guarantee of retaliation, when I'm almost positive that they planned on wiping them out with a surprise attack of some kind if there was actually supposed to be a wedding. So then naturally you have to wonder......is Pudding going rogue by revealing the surprise attack, or did Reiju see through the bullshit and directly confronted Pudding about Big Mom's intentions? All we know is that Reiju was able to escape. We don't know if this means that Pudding intentionally let her go, or if Pudding tried to kill her and Reiju managed to get away. In either case she hurt Reiju beyond what could be passed of as an "accident" of any kind, and would be aware of the size of the impending shit storm. Shit storms don't mix too good with well-laid plans. So with that being the case, is she trying to screw up Big Mom's plans in favor of her own? She did imply at being tired of Big Mom's treatment.