Quote Originally Posted by G13
What's the point of saving an inhabitable planet if you don't care about the inhabitants?
"People come first, Doctor Iseley."

Most of your argument fails to account for Sephiroth's puppeteering of the J-cells in Cloud's special place. No one had any way of knowing due to no information existing on the S-clones aka black cloaks. As for the materia, yeah, that was just a bad call all around. Cloud just came out of a coma and it has been discovered that, not only is he not who he claimed or believed he was, he was being controlled by Sephiroth. Time for another to man up! Cid!