Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
Almost as if what we want is stories that are meaningful and involved enough to warrant us not skipping it.
See this is the issue. These stories *are* meaningful and involved enough not to skip. They're wrapped in comedy, but they have world-building, memorable characters, and sometimes make some pretty pointed commentary about the cultures in the areas they're taking place in. I'm not going to point out specifics because a lot of people are going to be discovering this soon and I don't want to spoil the surprises. But the HW line alone without the comedic trappings would be pretty heart-breaking. And it was a nice homage to the central side character referenced in it.

Some people can't get past the silly and that's fine. They don't have to. But to say that these quests aren't meaningful is doing them a disservice. It is not just the comedy that makes people love Hildibrand.