Quote Originally Posted by Rulakir View Post
Conspiracy theory time. :P

I've thought EW wasn't the story Ishikawa wanted to tell. Given that she was having to rewrite the script to be more 'agreeable' to the team up until 2 days short of the deadline, it makes me think that it was too late to change Venat's actions and the best she could do within the limited time frame was to make her and the sundering appear positive through gratuitous narrative gaslighting. (The fact that she largely managed to pull this off is astounding.) Likely because someone (probably Yoshi-P) told her Hydaelyn can't be a 'bad guy'. There are interviews with Yoshi-P back in ShB wondering why people are so quick to believe Emet when they haven't heard Hydaelyn's side of the story yet. Emet never lied to us, Venat had been since Elpis. (Not to mention if people were that quick to believe an Ascian then I'd say that's evidence a decent amount of people didn't buy into Hydaelyn being a 'good guy'.)
I feel like I remember emet telling us that he wont interfere with us disposing of the lightwardens and that turned out to be not exactly the truth. Quite the opposite infact.