This thought just occurred to me. Everything hinged on their 16 year plan to destroy the US, take our guns, enslave us, etc. Well that's all gone up in smoke. There's no conceivable way they'll be able to finish that plan in the time they have left, so at this point, they've already lost.
With that in mind, what we're currently going through, isn't them fighting to win, but rather it's them fighting to save their own skins since they know they've lost and they're trying to avoid accountability. Hence Q saying "we're watching a movie". Because everything is basically theatre at this point, and is only being allowed to happen in a specific manner so that we can avoid things like WW III, an second American Civil War, etc.
Or am I looking at this wrong?
No, you aren't wrong. I can't really offer more than theories on this, but it seems clear that "they" have (or believe they have) some sort of timeline they must follow. Agenda 21 morphed into Agenda 2030 but there has also been the big over the top wake everyone up push of everything in the past decade. There is Operation Lockstep and other documents that hint at coming pandemics and viruses they are planning. For whatever reason, the slow boiling frog method of taking complete control of Earth (which had been very successful) seems to have been abandoned in the recent times causing actions and events that seemed almost designed to snap people out of their sleepy haze.
Trump forced this to happen since 2016
Even before I heard of Q I said that it felt like Trump had cranked the stove burner to max and broke the knob off on his way out.
Not only that, he left the Turkey(CIA) in the oven, and it's about to burn to a crisp after the upcoming DECLAS