Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker - Meteion concludes her report

Massive spoilers ahead...

[ornsharkfin]

Hermes: “These people are my family, I hold no secrets from them.”
Meteion: “Now that we’re alone I can discuss with you the tremendous sorrow and crippling depression I’m now suffering because everything else is dead and we’ll soon be dead too.”
Emet-Selch: “Turn that off.”

[Ixenvurthrae]

When first meeting Meteion: "A playable bird race would be awesome."
After this cutscene: "...Maybe not."

[SO]

When you pay attention to the camera cuts when Meteion explains the races. It's quite prophetic.

Hermes: renouncing relationships.
Emet: could not regain former glory.
All: searching for infinity
Hythlo: gave up in the future and themselves.
Venat: found no joy without sorrow.

Edit: furthermore the irony of Emet asking Meteion who she is to decide our fates. Mirroring the same scene in ShB.

This entire Elpis episode is my favorite of the whole series.

[hkoizumi]

All hope was lost when her sister visted WoW. Nobody was there.

[XxxXxLaCiexXxxX]

My heart shattered when Emet told us not to squander the legacy

[kleberson]

"Remember, Remember us" from Emel Selch has another meaning now after this scene from Endwalker

[DFell]

Her voice changing as the monologue goes on is so good.... the VA did an amazing job

[owohscorner]

The sad part is, in some round-about way Meteion is doing what she was made to do. Hermes didn't give her the ability to eat, she has free will(to an extent) but she doesn't live. And she knows what emotions are, bit she can't express them, that's why even though she was hurting in a sense, she needed us, the player, the change the color of the Dynamis flower to show Hermes.

If you recall, Hermes said Meteion was made so that people can understand each other. And in meeting all those failed and dead civilizations, she's fulfilling her purpose in making Etheiryans understand sorrow and despair.

[purplepanda]

I thought Hermes made a cute bird girl but really he made Ultron

[Slimewolf]

"One race had discarded all things that gave rise to sorrow, hoping to have only joy. They found joy lost its savor in the absence of sorrow, and lost their will to live."

This scene really struck me in hindsight. Meteion is referring to the aliens you encounter in last section of The Dead Ends duty. They achieved endless serenity, pleasure, and happiness, but as she states, they eventually grew listless and joyless after countless eons. This prompted them to summon the entity Ra-La to destroy them, granting release from the endless monotony and stagnation.

It's not immediately apparent until later, but that downfall parallels one of the very probable fates of Etheirys. Venat's reaction to the report is pretty telling here. She sees the writing on the wall for her people if things continue as they are. And what Hermes came to despise about Elpis reflects the innate flaws of the Ancients' "perfect" society---flaws that would eventually lead it toward a similar ruin.

[RichterfanReborn]

I love the line ; and it will be beautiful...

It connects Meteion and Hermes to Amon, and then Fandaniel, they all utter that phrase at one point or another, like a sickenly sweet and malevolent mantra.

[trial_with_an_error]

Meteion broke Hermes mind with that reveal. Everything leading up to this moment was just mental blow after mental blow against his psyche, and that final answer was what finally did in his sanity.

[HolderofSalvation]

Man one thing I love about this scene is that; starting with Meteion’s speech of despair, the edges of the screen go dark as a desaturated look filters over everything. Almost as if everyone’s caught in her grip of nihilism. But as soon as Venat breaks free of her restraints and charges Hermes, the filter is immediately gone, like hope shining through Meteion’s blanket of despair.

It’s such a minute detail but it speaks absolute volumes of what comes immediately afterwards and I love it so much!

[BattlerUshiromiya]

I think the thing I was most impressed with was the camera work and direction in this story. It helped emphasis so many moments and made them all the more powerful from the horrifying words of Meteion’s truth that she found amongst the stars, to the desperate attempts of all those trying to stop their fate, all the way to their victory of escape and Venat’s resolve as she became Hydaelyn and so much more after this part of the story.

I never noticed the first time given how powerful and enraptured I was in the story but now that I see them again I can see how much effort they put into their craft for storytelling. Even subtle choices like Meteion walking slowly towards the others as the camera follows behind her only for that same camera to fall behind slowly to create as much distance as possible while observing her emphasizes the fear she brings forth with her words and new found idealism alone.

God I’m just remembering the many years that I’ve played this game and how simple everything was and now that we’ve reached the final FINAL CLIMAX of this story arc how much work and effort and time they put in to get where we are now with just the presentation alone. This doesn’t even talk about all the amazing qualities I’m just talking about camera work here. But by god they really did hit this one out of the park!!~

[sacredlight]

I had a feeling this would happen but my heart was torn into pieces when Meteion turned...

[davi]

I am rarely scared, but I honestly find Meteion’s report about her discovery to be utterly frightening. The fact that multiple civilizations have risen and fallen, all experiencing death and suffering. It gave me a moment of existential crisis and feeling the terror of an utterly uncaring universe.

[SummerRainer]

Emet selch of all people questioning what gives someone the right to decree who lives or dies gets me everytime

[heartscaless]

The most frightening thing about Meteion's report is that it's rooted in reality. She's basically describing the great filter.

[mukulvdhiman]

This cutscene made me cry really bad. Not because it was sad. But because it's a masterpiece both cinematically and in story writing. This, this is how you tie a story together.

[TheKuroArisu]

The voice acting is so good. Like the whole plot and the voice acting really ties everything so well I get chills