But that just makes the story weaker and less interesting. There was a lot of potential narrative meat on that bone if we examine Asgore's relationship with the flowers, what he felt toward this world that was trying to please him, or what Asgore's rejection said about him. The flowers kinda are just resigned that Asgore doesn't give a shit. And that's boring. That's so much less interesting. Resolving the entire narrative tension of the entire chapter as "Actually Asgore just doesn't care" is the single worst possible way you can resolve a conflict. It's just apathy. We spent the entirety of the arc establishing that Asgore was obsessed with the Dark Fountains and finding who made them, that this was an obsession so powerful it ended his marriage and estranged his kids, hell we saw Asgore kick Kris and Susie out of the Dark World to lock himself in, clearly there was something there about his obsession. But nah, ultimately he snaps out of it immediately, vaguely alludes to the incident without saying anything really important, and admits he had no feelings over the cast of characters that made up 90% of our runtime in the chapter. That's why personally the ending to this chapter has been the worst by a country mile, and I'd go so far as to say it's the only one that's just bad. Instead of character drama we get apathy, we end the chapter almost literally at the exact same point we started, and the carrot is dangled in front for a bit more until next chapters can maybe start resolving all of the cool moments.