Quote Originally Posted by Lersayil View Post
This actually bothered me about the story more than everything else combined. Like, our merry group of war criminals readily dismisses the Endless as lifeless facsimiles and constructs recreated from dead peoples memories... but literally everything we experience while talking with them seems to contradict this? They are self aware, capable of feeling, decision making, planning and forming memories, and as far as I could tell nothing was brought up to imply that they aren't mentally the same as any living person. Did I miss something?

The writing was set up to force us into an "us or them" situation, which is... hamfisted, but fine. But the happy-happy heroic celebration afterwards did not at all mirror my mood when the credits were rolling. Like what the hell? We may have just committed genocide, at least feel bad about it for more than a few minutes?

I'm seriously not sure if I missed something important, because as is there is a very easy parallel to be drawn between our heroes and one of our previous major villains.
Agreed! I'm not against the idea that the Endless HAVE to die for the good of the star and all its reflections, but why is it not played up to be as tragic and messed up as it truly is? These are obviously sentient beings able to experience emotions and create memories, not just some crazy computer simulations. Why is it that when we kill them everyone just frowns and moves on to the next and then the ending has the gall to play that loud-ass harpy Disney music as if we didn't just erase thousands, potentially hundreds of thousands, of living beings in order to save the world? Nah, couldn't have "sacrificing for the greater good" as a theme in our expansion about mentoring a country's ruler. That is way too scary and complex for this writing team.

Also, screw Cahciua. She was annoying, her robot form took away any tension at a part of the MSQ that needed it, lied to her son (that she ditched when he was a child) that she was alive, and her plan sucks and she never acknowledges that it sucks. Another character who was obviously written to be overly likeable but just comes across as disingenuous and emotionally manipulative.