Quote Originally Posted by Raoabolic View Post
I was listening to it in the car yesterday, which is why I posted it. The lyrics "Release your hands, for your will drags us under" hits in a very weird way now if you look at it from the Ancients point of view, lol.
That line sounded more like lamenting the human condition back in ARR but now it just sounds like a threat now that we know it’s her “I’m going to kill literally literally everyone” manifesto. Really doesn’t paint a picture of a benevolent god to be told “I’m going to dramatically weaken you and shorten your lifespans from thousands to tens of years TELL ME THE MEANING OF LIFE YOU HAVE 10 SECONDS.” And like, that’s completely fine. Turning its meaning on its head to something darker and more twisted isn’t bad, it just needed to accompany her actually being this dark and twisted figure she comes across as when you analyze her actions. In that sense they missed a huge opportunity to really slap the player in the face with the truth of her nature by connecting the song that accompanied a game-ending calamity to her actions that literally destroyed an entire world! They just didn’t have the balls to do it. Now it’s just like “why am I supposed to be shedding tears for this lady who destroyed a whole world with a theme song that sounds like she’s celebrating her actions?”