What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Teraq]

(damn great post)

Cue Emet-Selch finally learning that neither the unspeakable extinction-level tragedy that engulfed the entire planet nor the Sundering that literally ended his entire race and culture and wiped its existence from history were random accidents, natural events or otherwise unplanned, but that both were, in fact, knowingly manufactured and inflicted upon humanity by two of his peers with full knowledge of the consequences... and he expresses nothing but faint grudging praise for Venat, and playfully chides Hermes in a single line for "making him forget" (ay lmao RIP one of the most impactful lines of the entire arc).

(While Omega does try to excuse Hermes in a way, that's a different context, as Omega was not personally impacted by his actions, and itself comes from a survival-of-the-fittest hellscape that would favor interpreting his actions the way it did.) (Meta-wise, however: Ishikawa please stop trying to push him being in any way justified please and thank you.)

GOD. That goddamned Ultima Thule scene. It's ––– I'm sorry it makes me so mad I'm not sure how to qualify it.