Quote Originally Posted by Conundrum View Post
Their complete lack of guts to kill any main characters has seriously started to hurt my enjoyment and opinion of the game. It was ignorable up until Endwalker...but the fake death conga line underlined, highlighted, and shined a spotlight on it.

Now it feels as if there are no stakes or consequences to anything.

Game of Thrones was awesome BECAUSE they chopped off Ned Starks head. (shut up about S8)

The Walking Dead was awesome BECAUSE Sophia was killed.

But everyone knows Waifu and GQ model aren't dying, neither are the kids.
Stranger than Fiction was also a great movie when it spoke upon death and how impactful it is to the plot of a story.
This will always be my favourite quote:

“No one wants to die but unfortunately we do. You will die someday, sometime. Heart failure at the bank. Choke on a mint. Some long, drawn-out disease you contracted on vacation. Even if you avoid this death, another will find you and I guarantee that it won't be poetic or meaningful.”
Warning EW spoiler
When the scions "die" at the end of EW, it felt cheap. It was predictable what was going to happen. They're going to live, of course.
Had I the choice of writing, Alisae would have persihed in the crossing scenario of Garlemald.
Theancred would have perished and been the soul guiding essence on Ultima Thule.
Yshtola would have given her life to break Meteion's Ultimatum instead of Zenos.
As a result of these deaths, Estinien would have become tempered and become more loyal to protecting what the scions stand for. Perhaps even the new leader.
Alphinaud would become detatched and angry (which could lead to a personal questline where we are able to change his attitude or let him be)
The consequences of motions of deaths changes things that imo must be changed.