We've already had many threads that have beaten to death the topic of Wuk Lamat's character the problems with her. I want instead to focus on another character who also contributed heavily to my disdain for this story: Sphene.

Sphene could have been interesting! The concept is interesting! A dead queen's memories are uploaded into a computer, and with these memories acting as some kind of "prime directive" for the computer, she seeks to do ANYTHING to protect those categorized as "her people," even the dead ones. They could have done something really creepy with Sphene. Like if GLADOS from Portal had the emotional capacity of a 16 year old girl who wanted to "collect" everyone inside her dome where she could keep them "safe" and keep playing The Sims with the memories of the dead forever. But instead, the game spends all this time in the last two zones and Solution 9 trying to convince us that she's not just a computer program, she's a real person we can and should befriend and come to understand and reason with. She a super nice Queen and everyone loves her! What does she do to earn the love and adoration of her citizens? She...shows up and talks to them and remembers their names and occupations, a thing that would take no effort for a computer program. Does she do anything to improve their lives and their living situations and the economy? No! She gave all that power to Zoraal Ja and lets him walk all over her people. But then we learn that she could have overridden this at any point, she just didn't want to because she found him useful. But we need to be friends and understand her!! Yes she signed off on the assault on Tulliyolal but she was sad about it!

And then after the master computer supposedly "deleted" all of the memories of Queen Sphene and we can finally just go beat up this stupid rogue AI trying to destroy all the Shards and the Source by eating up all the aether, WUK LAMAT has to come in and use the Power of Friendship(tm) through the bonds they made (what bonds??) and that MAGICALLY UN-DELETED ALL OF SPHENE'S DATA so that she could be "redeemed" because she realized she did a bad thing and her and Wuk can have a tearful goodbye.I half expected Wuk Lamat to go full Care Bears and call upon the audience to chant "We believe in you, Sphene! Don't give up!"

Where is WoL for all of this? Who knows, the camera hasn't show them in a while. Probably already booted out of cyberspace and vomiting in some corner of Living Memory.