User blog comment:BastionMonk/How bad was Peter Ludlow?/@comment-5870856-20130523233623

Okay, so maybe Ludlow was not the best villain, but that was the role he was supposed to play. If he seemed more like a good guy than a bad one, that was the scripwriter's fault for not making him seem more evil.

What is evil about him, what separates him from Hammond, is that he doesn't care if people die! His apology for Ajay's death was a shallow imitation. He obviously didn't care that several hunters and mercenaries under his command died, and he certainly didn't care much about the gatherer who was eaten by a T. rex, the name of whom I unfortunately forget. And when people in San Diego were dying, his first thoughts were to capture Junior so he could save his business venture.

And even though he didn't blow up at Malcolm, that makes him MORE villainous! No proper villain would get enraged at the hero after he's been captured, they laugh in his face or ignore him and act unflustered. That charisma is villainous. If he'd punched Malcolm, he'd be more human, which is exactly what he was not supposed to be. He is an inhuman monster who doesn't care about human suffering. Hammond cared. He was shattered on the helicopter leaving Nublar. His dream was dead and so were three friends. He had nearly cost his grandchildren their lives, too. But he protected Isla Sorna so those deaths wouldn't be in vain. Ludlow took advantage of his uncle's emotions and failing health to use that dream as a source of money. He never respected what Jurassic Park meant. And he didn't have the slightest respect for human life. Ludlow was a monster.