Quote Originally Posted by Lunaxia View Post
I'm not going to get into the "they said they were disbanding" debate because [incoherent noises], but I think there's a case to be made that it is very weird to not only put that out there (officially, unofficially, whatever) and have the Scions seemingly doing their own thing, then make a big song and dance of ending the previous arc they have always been innately part of and pushing the whole "you're an adventurer again!" schtick and implying you're going to be off on your own journey like we did when we started out... only to drag them back into the MSQ and have them follow us around again when they're not necessary, they don't even have a story to tell anymore and there's nothing tying them to the plot. Even if you didn't pay attention to whether they were actually disbanding or not, it just seemed like a natural course of events to break away from them, at least for a time, but then... surprise, I guess. And not a pleasant one, hence the response.
I don't know. There are some out there who have had a high level of mistrust if not outright loathing of Hydelean since at least 3.2 all due to that patch's key art. Hell some even before that. They might deny it, but I do remember some of those still around that were very much "She's gotta be evil, trust me Bro" prior to that patch's artwork. That they had as much love for the Ascians even back then as deep as Denishia's disdain for Emet-Selch.

I'm probably going to have to agree to disagree on the Flanderising. I'm not sure how except maybe for 6.1 any of the Scions when they show up shouldn't be showing up. There's reasonable explanations as to why any of them are where they are when they show up. Except as I said 6.1 where they could have gotten away without Urianger coming along. Though now that I thought about it I hate his inclusion even more as he's literally only there to be an in game reason why one EW treasure map can land you in the Excitatron. Which helps a little(?) as it's better than the meta reason of they need a designated healer. Again I feel the main problem with the we didn't have a proper break from them is the devs never giving us any real indication of time passing. Only to give us the all of ARR to at least the end of 4.0 all happened in a year answer. That then also got followed up with the oh well you can also say how much time really passed on your own as long as certain characters are stuck physically looking the way they are cause we've unfortunately seen some of your rule 34 depictions. As I'm sure that if they had somehow worked in a "many months later" scene there would be less people complaining.