What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Midareyukki]

Can I say something that has been on my mind forever.

Why did we have to tie up a closing loose end with a character that was only around for a patch in the final portion of the story where we should have been defending against blasphemies but instead we move boxes and watch urianger hug the parents of this character who barely had any major impact in the story?

Am I the only one who didn't really care about an ARR character? Of Course I'm talking Moenbryda. She had zero impact on me. And having her parents forced in for 15 minutes of a critical end of story prep it was just more on the fire for bad pacing.

Because, for better or for worse, she remains a big part of Urianger's character. Except she didn't have an impact on us, and that's the issue... WE'RE the readers, not Uribanger.

Still, she meant something to him, she went unresolved for years on end and that part was them finishing a circle. We've seen other characters come to terms with personal grievances and reminisce on where they started and where they now are. Urianger usually only had to do this for one character archetype, that of the benevolent "traitor". He still needed his feelings on Moenbryda addressed, since her death was kind of blitzed through.

See... I see this not as us closing Moenbryda, but closing Urianger's chapter. She was his Minfilia, his Ga Bu. She was part of who he was at an emotional level, it's part of his resolution and motivation. I feel like the intended aspect there was to allow that part of his story to move forward and allow him to have an emotional scene. What they forgot was the fact that unlike Minfilia, Ga Bu, what have you, Moenbryda had zero relevance past loose references here and there.

And I can make it worse. One other thing that no one is mentioning is how they DO still reference Moenbryda after her death... in Ivalice-Bozja... through Mikoto...
1 - They fail at "Show, don't tell", since Mikoto is always portraying Moenbryda as something grander than what she was on-screen
2 - They also fail at making Mikoto remotely palatable. Especially in Bozja where she's the unwitting instigator of doom about three times in a row. So people will either tune out or just outright have a poor view of whatever she has to say on anyone.

So that scene? I can justify it with "The impact was meant to be about Urianger" and that's why it exists. We're meant to see him. However, it was obviously fully centered on Moenbryda, who was horribly handled. Because it's clear they tried to give Moenbryda crumbs afterward. It was just too little, too late, and way too poorly done anyway.