Tales from the Dawn

[SentioftheHoukai]

Yeah I'm really over it and (admittedly using your comment as a bit of a springboard to what I was already drafting in my head) the whole base of it comes down to the fact that the Sundering had to happen at a storywriting level, because they'd already established that it happened, despite not having a clear plan for how or why or what sort of light it cast on the insigators. Character motivations and actions got bent around to fit the necessity of this event happening, even though they didn't have a really good idea that stands up to scrutiny.

The logic falls apart and I would rather lay the blame for that at the writers than the characters, move on with only the broad-strokes intention of the narrative in mind, and hope they don't do it again.

That's a hell of a lot easier to say when it's your favored characters that get to live, over the lives of those whose memories they trample upon with every blundering, bumbling, clodding step they make. But, what the hell I'll allow you that.

After all, I too hope to Zodiark they don't make such a colossal fuckup such as Endwalker ever again. Glad to see we're finally on the same page, say it with me now: GENOCIDE JUSTIFICATION AS THE CORE ETHOS OF YOUR NARRATIVE IS BAD. ;3

Turns out, if they had simply kept the characterization of the Scions, the moral nuance, and the black and grey plot they so carefully cultivated in Shadowbringers chances are keen none of this endless Venat vs. Emet or whichever else Ascian of the day debates on this forum wouldn't be happening. And wouldn't that have been nice, every party satisfied!