What Forge Ahead Actually Means

[Kazhar]

Well, since we're talking about the Scions again...

I'll admit that there's a weird impassivity I feel whenever the Scions appear on-screen in post-EW.

I started feeling it during EW (earlier with Thancred, who I feel concluded his most compelling arc in ShB), but it's definitely apparent now.

Estinien is my bro, though, so I was genuinely excited to start adventuring with him again.

I think the Scions have been shells of their former selves since 6.0 (Maybe a bit earlier). In a way, they seem to have regressed back to their pre-ShB characterization of just being there to say whatever is needed to make the plot move forward and overexplain the themes of the story in case anybody missed it (there are some exceptions, like Urianger. But it also feels like a rehash of previous patterns). Krile is especially guilty of this. She's an almost literal deus ex machina during the entirety of EW.

I definitely wouldn't mind an entirely new cast.