Quote Originally Posted by ArcturusWhisper View Post
There's idealism, and then there's this.
It isn't Idealism, it's Hiroi being a hack.

Tural is laughably easy to unite because all of the tribes' differences can be settled by growing plants, giving seeds, making food and trading junk like the simpletons they all are. Wuk Lamat was able to follow his footsteps to the letter just by winging it.

There are no wider morals beyond getting from A to B. The 'idealism' falls apart when Solution Nine came into the picture. Now suddenly it's okay to shit on their culture, call it unnatural, look at people with disgust, kill their monarchs, install puppet leaders, announce that Solution Nine is under the 'protection' of Tuliyollal like we are the French 100-200 years ago, strike down any dissent from natives and walk out to the tune of Smile telling us we are heroes for it.

In a real world where there are at least two major ongoing conflicts right now, where the aggressors have invaded their neighbour under the pretense of 'enforcing peace', you'd think Vladimir Wuk's actions wouldn't be seen as the perfect idyllic choices they were made out to be.

I'm not sure the lead writer even understands what monster he's created with this, and he should be thankful that the wider FF14 community - who laud the narrative as much as they do - can't actually read to pick up on this.