Is this a plothole? Question about the Endless

[Lady_Silvermoon]

It's like making robots that act like your dead grandparents and locking them in a room together for all eternity, and then never entering that room again. And you might think, "Yeah, that's odd, but grief is weird, and we do weird things to try to process grief." And yeah, we do...but there's no grief here. Regulators ensure that you can't remember your dead loved ones, thus removing grief from the equation. So now you've got 2 roombas in a shed pretending to be your grandparents where you'll never witness it, and you don't even remember that you ever had grandparents....so what purpose is there to the roombas in the shed? Living Memory is an absolute nonsense system that doesn't help anyone, and it does so at the cost of requiring an unsustainable amount of energy.

That was something else that hit me as dumb. Why go through all this trouble of keeping the dead around if you're gonna wipe them from everyone's memories? I'd make more sense if they were like, "Miss grandma? Then go visit the upstairs amusement park, she's there."

They clearly also made a copy of his soul and tested what options were available to them. The copy that got experimented on (before Queen Sphene's) become the endless Otis, written off of the memories up to that point and the other copy was either tossed away into the Robot, or they were trying to come up with a way of creating artificial bodies to supplement the corporeal form post death.

Never in this game's history has there been a single example of a soul being copied. If that ever becomes possible, they might as well just set their afterlife lore on fire, cause they are done.

Yep, all the nonsensical "soul physics" aside, the messages they were trying to feed us were just as half-cooked. I too wish that he would have gotten a moment of emancipation or self-realisation, understanding that he can follow his own dreams.

Everything about the last zone felt so patronising towards Erenville. His grief was constantly delegitimised while every aspect of Cahciua's perspective was presented as the "right thing" and her bad parenting decisions were downplayed as funny and charming quirks. Erenville on the other hand was painted as unreasonably dour and grumpy who deserved the never-ending stream of teasing and of being "corrected".

Some people claim that one of the themes of this expansion is family. I disagree as the family relations were all terrible and half the cast end up offing a family member. So if the theme was family, it'd be "don't have them, because they'll be the literal death of you." What I think is they attempted to create a theme around legacy, but the message was, "No one lives forever, so have kids and burden them with fulfilling your dreams." And that forces me to ask for the hundredth time, "WHO WROTE THIS?!"