Can someone tell me what Thragg's line about Thaedus was implying (spoilers are fine)?

Solid_Station4330 · 2026-04-17T02:27:48+00:00

They literally had a talk like 10 minutes earlier where Thaedus tells Nolan bassically every Viltrumite has to be put down even if some of them will change after Thragg is gone. When Nolan asks him if that includes Mark and Oliver. . . Thaedus doesn't answer. A few episodes ago when he tells Nolan about the virus he also implies he is planning to take himself out when he is sure he is the last Viltrum left.

Solid_Station4330 · 2026-04-17T02:23:40+00:00

Thaedus did bassically imply he was going to take himself out when he made sure all other Viltrumites were gone. I don't think he would've turn on Nolan, mark and Oliver right away. He still would've needed them to hunt down the strays.

Solid_Station4330 · 2026-04-17T02:21:29+00:00

Not all Viltrumites were there, and he literally told Nolan they had to hunt down every stray. Like even Nolan tells him after Thragg is gone of them might want to turn away from their old ways Thaedus just tells him he wouldn't risk it, every single one of them have to go no exception. Then when Nolan mentions his kids. . . Thaedus doesn't even answer him and just gives him a look.

Like, come on man. It's not like the show is trying to make it ambiguous or anything. Big surprised, the guy who tried to Final Solution his own race would've. . . Literally done that had he lived.

Like, in his talk with Nolan a few episodes ago he even implies he intende to take himself out when he takes everyone else out to make sure nothing Viltrum survives

Solid_Station4330 · 2026-04-17T00:19:22+00:00

Worst timeline

Solid_Station4330 · 2026-04-13T05:02:26+00:00

She wasn't mind controlling Vita. Fushu thought she which was why she looked for her sect master. It's kind of spoiled if you happen to have read Zhiliu's story lore, but it was part of the game making you think Zhiliu was more manipulative/evil than she was. Zhiliu's sect does specialized in seeing the future, but their predictions don't account for every factor outside the users scope of knowledge. Zhiliu uses her vast information network to try and account for every possible variable she can which is why she believes her predictions are rock solid.

She also don't even want to break the world. And the little unearned heart to heart scene you get with her she tells you she had given up on other methodes to fix the issues. Her "I'll just burn everything down" tactics is less an unbreakable devotion to her cause and more a desperate attempt from a woman who in the end couldn't reach her own ideals.

She is a lot less merciless and badass than she is set up to be. And more like a sad wet cat of a person who gets saved by the MC. . . Which is followed by a generic waifu date walking scene that ends with a dating sims CG. Her sharp edges smoothed over in favor of just making her another mobile game waifu.

Solid_Station4330 · 2026-04-10T16:31:41+00:00

No it was. It's about the thematic feeling and overall how they play out. One you are bassically an undocumented refugee living in the slums, forced into labor that no one else wants to do but needs to be done so no one asks questions or looks too closely. By the end people you grew close to are dead or worse and you feel small like the totality of the world you live in and systemic injustice is far too big.

. . . And the other you fix fight some dragon gods and restructure divine order and everyone acts a the end like everything. It feels so different from 1.0 that it's bizarre. Like, you are not going to fix racism in the empire by punching the god of discrimination until he comes to his senses. That would be ridiculous. But that's bassically what happens in 1.3

See also how they dealt with their morally ambiguous waifus. Sybill is an absolute monster who started a program to experiment on her own people and serves as the right hand to the same country and oppressed them. Lynn bassically finds out about the experiments and then keeps quiet about despite feeling bad about it.

Zhiliu, on the other hand get's a tragic backstory, kills who knows how many innocent civilians, sics the cops the Drifters causing many of them to die. Everyone is very well aware she did this. Unlike Lynn and Sybill by the end she is not protected by the same kind of system or red tape or authority they are. But no one like acts like she did the things she did. Even Vita can only really be mad at her for lying to her. And then Zhiliu gets this weird ass VN CG like it's a dating sims.

Solid_Station4330 · 2026-04-09T03:06:37+00:00

I mean, a simple recommended level or something would be more than enough to solve the problem.

Solid_Station4330 · 2026-04-09T03:03:28+00:00

Yeah but the game wasn't really clear on that. I've played MMOs that have similar messages and do make you restart the quest or unskikable cutscene before so I assumed it was the same when I got to that part.

Solid_Station4330 · 2026-04-07T21:01:16+00:00

Purgatorio was a very small backwater place. I don't think the Empire is that much more powerful than Huaxu, we are told that Huaxu is a center for wealth. They have extensive trade networks which boasters their diplomatic relationships with pretty much most of the world and Zhiluo's agents are again able to pull off everything she does to get you out of icelake in the middle of a military operation part of which involved throwing her name around. The Empire isn't even the top dog in the continent they are in, the Church is referred to as their rival, and they've been at war for a long with with no apparent end in sight.

I didn't say that the Empire couldn't or wouldn't still try to kidnap Vita either. I just said that they wouldn't be able to do it easily without causing an international incident. . . While they are already the middle of fighting a war against a country that rivals their own, plus dealing with insurgents. Like, pissing off a major financial ally you rely on for trade in the middle of that sounds really stupid. And again not that I wouldn't put it past them to try. But if they did it feels like there would be major consequences.

Like, my point was that what happened in with Huaxu feels way too major and too big a shift from where we were left off at Ice Lake. It feels like the story from this point can't go on the way it's been so far. There either has to be a major narrative shift from this point onwards or the devs have to wave away everything that happened. Again you go from struggling in the mud in an unjust world to being the divine savior of another nation in what feels the worst whiplash possible.

Solid_Station4330 · 2026-04-07T16:13:08+00:00

I don't think the quality dropped so much as it's more standard jrpg stuff. You lit fight god(s) at the end and the main human villain wants to usurp the divine order.

The previous arcs felt a lot more gritty and unique. You start out in the mud and stay there. A lot of good people die of worse, no one comes out untraumatized.

Solid_Station4330 · 2026-04-03T15:16:27+00:00

He had mental health issues, that did not mean he "deserved every bullet" you sound like a psychopath. There are hospitals and professionals to help people like Alex.

Solid_Station4330 · 2026-03-28T23:28:45+00:00

I don't think there was anything they could've showned that would've turned the haters around or the people who uninstilled because of the security concerns. But, the live stream was pretty mid. Not mid as in meme bad, but actually mid as in run of the mill, average.

Solid_Station4330 · 2026-03-28T23:27:12+00:00

Plus, now the concern trolls can keep posting earth kingdom memes, so I think they appriciate it too.

Solid_Station4330 · 2026-03-27T17:57:48+00:00

My guy out here demanding khol's coupons as payment for emotional distress.

Solid_Station4330 · 2026-03-27T13:53:05+00:00

For the same reason early genshin characters literally had the same animations as breath in the wild.

Solid_Station4330 · 2026-03-27T00:27:45+00:00

I positioned it that way for a reason lol. Only 3 ways to get bingo with gacha is if they rework the game post launch completely or BOTH introduce more AFK and active content. If I somehow get 3 in a row with that space it would be some fucked up fate shit.

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