On Themis [6.4 SPOILER]

[Lunaxia]

Oh, I fully understand why the writers take the direction they do with Themis.

Come on now, you cannot in good stead claim on the one hand to reject certain Ancients because the story treats them and/ or their actions too generously, and then go on to cite Venat as a good example of a character receiving adequate in-universe criticism because of some purported vague moments of self-reflection on the other. Even in good faith, that's just flat out denial, lol.

I've come to see the writing of Pandaemonium as very, ah, disjointed? I suppose the terminology I would use would be that. I don't see much evidence that they'd given too much thought as to how the parallels between Athena and Venat truly made the Mothercrystal look. But it is what it is, I suppose.

The previous patches were fine, but the final tier caught the Endwalker disease and tried too hard to make a Very Deep and Meaningful Message in lieu of constructing a coherent story with substance behind it that holds up to analysis. Fanservice 1, narrative 0.