Quote Originally Posted by Nayukhuut View Post
Yeh. It really feels like at times that they started with a different story and then decided to suddenly shift track halfway through. Then instead of changing the events to back up their new vision, they just sorta told us told us what they wanted us to think and to ignore anything we had seen before that.
I believe its a mix of both of that and some people overthinking things. Although I dont want to outright dismiss those interpretations since honestly anyone can interpret a lot of things about the story and thats fine. I dont mind that people like Theodoric believe Venat is some twisted vile villian, I just dont necessarily believe that to be the absolute case. Especially when its clear thats not what the writers's intention was for the character (again, Venat's character is supposed to be a reference to Venat from FFXII where they also served a similar role as someone who rebelled in favor of mankind rather than the gods) I more so criticize in how they handled the story rather than debate on her character. Because if we're going to try to pull the "why didnt x do this" then ok, how about why didnt the Ascians just wiped us out at the Waking Sands if they knew we were a threat in ARR? We clearly were at our most vulnerable at the time. Considering they've done this song and dance numerous times with other shards and their WoLs, I find it stupid that Lahabrea or Elidibus wasted their time prolonging their plans inadvertently causing their own demise. We didnt criticize that because video game plot, just like with why are we trying to play the semantics game with Venat and the Sundering.