Quote Originally Posted by Thenightvortex View Post
So, after skimming through this thread I can say that the majority of replies missed the point completely. I am not arguing that comedy and lightheartedness in beast tribe quests is inherently a bad thing, but I am arguing it is bad in this particular one. The topics they are dealing with are heavy and serious, those are life-long conflicts that those people had to deal with. Instead of actually insightful portrayal and something that will flesh out those races and make them more interesting, it is more strawmaning and dumb bunnies being shoved in your face. Vidofnir doesn’t seem to make a distinction between Dynamis constructs and real dragons and treats them as real, so I assume those are an indication enough that those phantom creations can be seen as their accurate representations.

This entire questline is a waste, and this moment is a perfect example.

We have too much comedy in this Expansion. We have entire segments of MSQ both on the moon and Sharlayan dedicated to comedy with loporrats, they are also seen in Garlemald where they ruin any seriousness and urgency with their presence, made even worse by the utter lack of stakes in the story We have a new season of Hildibrand, and the relic storyline is also comedy orientated. The first beast tribe with Matanga is also light hearted and comedy-oriented, the supposed bunny beast tribe will be the same thing no doubt. With all this in mind, they could allow this questline to be on the serious side which focuses on the people of Ultima Thule and unstrawmaning them without loporrat presence. I understand that(according to YouTube) many people have an urge to wheeze and roll on the floor after hearing something as hilarious as “puddingway” or “carrot of happiness”, but they have plenty of opportunities for that already. There was no need to add this infestation into Omicron tribe.
I have to agree with you on this one. EW's story is supposed to be about marking hard decisions and learning to move on; it's not supposed to be funny, which the Omicron tribe quests seem to miss. It's not that humor or lightheartedness is a bad thing, far from it - it just feels like it's moving a bit too quickly in terms of heaviness vs. humor. The situation of the Omicrons and the Dragons is a good example; it's quite nice that the Dragons are able to make peace with their former foes, but... doing it over the course of a single quest, by baking a cake, after the Omicrons literally destroyed not only the Dragonstar but countless other worlds? Yeah, it really does feel a bit childish, in a way; I mean, don't get me wrong, I love Endwalker and I feel that the Omicrons being able to redeem themselves is an interesting plotline, but it feels just a bit too rushed and "out-there" compared to the expansion's theme of loss and despair.