Quote Originally Posted by not_ya_wify View Post
This was probably the biggest let down for me and Elpis was an emotional rollercoaster that kept playing with my wish to save the ancients then brutally tearing it away again.
Same. I was expecting an AU coming off of ShB and, despite what Elidibus said, both Venat and Hythlodaeus state while we cannot change our own future we may yet be able to change theirs. I don't have to tell you to imagine my disappointment because you experienced it. As soon as Hermes whipped out Kairos, the fury I felt. Then watching Emet & Hyth have their memories wiped I just started sobbing. I was/am so angry. Not even at Hermes, but at the writers.

I still had some measure of hope for Venat because by telling her about the future we'd given her the opportunity for a redo. Surely she would do things differently knowing how they turned out, but nope! She rattles off her nonsensical list as to why she's going to do everything the same and then I'm subjected to the atrocious cutscene people praise of her pity walk through the ages after she decides to genocide her race. Spare me.

I would say I emotionally tapped out of EW at that point but, no, they had to twist the knife by bringing Emet & Hyth back in Ultima Thule and again I sobbed with fury at the writers for doing this to my two favorite characters. I saw someone on Reddit comment that EW was cathartic. I have no idea how. Anyone who was a fan of the Ancients the story couldn't have gone any worse than it did. I will perpetually feel unfulfilled because of this ridiculous time loop.