Quote Originally Posted by Vahlnir View Post
EW would have handled hope well enough if there was actual despair to be felt. The hope, and the message of hope, was there and pretty solid. There just wasn't any real despair to counter it. I know I never felt it even for a second. So yeah, it rang pretty hollow and fell flat on its face.
^ Partially this. The only people group on our planet who had to face actual real despair got told to suck it up and just die cause they wanted to try and mitigate their suffering instead of reveling in it. When our 'heroes' talk about hope overcoming despair, I have to ask, what despair? Although I do think that the message of hope that the expansion had did need some work, it would have been far better if there was actual despair to overcome with said hope.