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We don't really know enough about the plan to know if it has fallen "perfectly" into place.I get the opportunism theory. It's plausible from a writing perspective but unsatisfying from a reader perceptive (in my opinion). I just don't like the idea that NikosYou must be registered to see the linksmost of this as things fell perfectly into place for him. He should have not have logically believed his unrealistic desires could come true in this scenario with his niece's husband. The odds were against him and he should have known that, no matter how desperate he was.
Right now, as far as we the readers can tell, Marina now believes that Elena is trans, and she has left Marina for Nikos. If they divorce, that is the story she will take back to friends and family in the States. If they investigate and track down Elena in Greece, she will basically confirm this story herself. Nikos has repeatedly insisted that Elena tell him that she wants him during sex, and has made a point of not forcing himself on her. And everything else that happened was technically agreed to by Andrew, so technically, as long as no one can prove that he was roofied, there are no legal complications.How could he have thought that making Andrew, an American citizen (presumably with family/friends/co-workers), just disappear and get away with it without a single issue. Which as far as we've seen, Andrew's disappearance or death (so to speak), hasn't caused any issues. There should have been more chaos and Nikos should have been doing a lot of juggling to keep what became a very complex/complicated looking scheme from easily falling apart.
Remember how back in April we were all discussing how strange it was that Nikos and Sofia were flaunting Nikos' and Elena's relationship in front of Marina? How Nikos keeps kissing her in front of Marina? Almost like they were intentionally making her angry? If getting Andrew and Marina to divorce is part of the plan, then it wasn't luck. They made it happen.Marina is angry right now but if she goes over to see Andrew/Elena and dumps him, that's just another perfectly executed plan or stroke of good luck for Nikos and that shouldn't have realistically been foreseeable. Nikos seems to have unnatural luck and Andrew seems to unnatural misfortune. The statistical probability of the opportunities presenting themselves at just the right times with just the right unique circumstances to guarantee success is unrealistic. Yes, I understand that this is a fictional story, but if it is set in the real world without any magic/divinity/futuristic technology, then it needs to follow "real world" logic.
That doesn't sound like a mystery. The reason why this comic is entertaining for me, and why I believe it has generated so much engagement on 8muses, here, Patreon, Discord, etc., is because there is so much we don't know that gets revealed slowly. I'm not going to pretend this is the best written story ever, but it is certainly the most community engagement I've ever participated in. It's entirely possible that your story would be better written, but I think it would mostly be enjoyed privately rather than discussing it online.Out of curiosity, I know I've expressed frustrations with this story before. At least for me, I think I would have really liked a more focused story where the method acting was introduced as the premise, rather than the reveal. Would people have been interested in/preferred that story? An actor takes on a female role in a film, and gets lost in it and it starts affecting their normal life?
For me, it's all going to come down to the ending. I'm always willing to overlook parts of the story that seem like plot holes or dead-ended threads because I want to assume they will be tied up neatly at the end. I have, of course, been burned by this way of thinking before. Game of Thrones was my favorite show of all time up to season 6. Even after watching season 7 I was still cautiously hopeful. After finishing season 8, I fucking hate it. I'll never watch it again, and that made me really sad.