Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4383275-20160827054600/@comment-27701762-20160827215730

Oobooglunk wrote: She sends Mettaton to kill Frisk. Mettaton himself says as much prior to his boss fight, and his intentions are benevolent, as shown by his quote "my only desire is to entertain." Wait, what? He says no such thing. What he says is that Alphys made up the story about Mettaton malfunctioning so that he would "attack" Frisk and she could step in to save them. At every point of the Hotland story Mettaton's efforts to kill Frisk are not only "thwarted" by Alphys, but proven to be completely harmless anyway.

When Mettaton actually attacks you, he specifically goes off-script, locks Alphys out of the room you are fighting in, and then engages in actual battle.

At no point does Alphys actually try to put Frisk in danger. She just creates the illusion of danger.

Meanwhile, Mettaton's actions are far from benevolent. His desire to entertain is a desire to be adored by others. When he changes the script his objective is to kill Frisk and take their soul so he can cross the Barrier and increase his fanbase.

She still deserves to be held accountable for the actions of her creation. As a scientist, she should have had a failsafe planned for Flowey's rebellion, and the fact that she had a failsafe for all her creations except Flowey seems, like I said, almost intentional. A failsafe like what?

And what other failsafes does she put into her other experiments? Switching Mettaton's form isn't a failsafe. Alphys is specifically focusing on not finishing the body for entirely different reasons. Nor is anything else she does to stop Mettaton a failsafe, because it is all a show that he puts on. She provides no failsafe for the Amalgamates. She just locks them in her lab.

There isn't really any failsafe that can be made for Flowey. She worked for a long time to get the flower to come alive, and nothing happened. She had a theory, she tested it, and by all accounts the theory failed, and so she gave up. Only after she gave up did it turn out that her theory was right, and by that time there was nothing that could be done.