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Hunk Link ParentHe's been an fixture of UK politics for over a decade. He's a household name in the UK. He was a prominent eurosceptic. He's synonymous with brexit. He was a member of UKIP when that political...He's been an fixture of UK politics for over a decade. He's a household name in the UK.
He was a prominent eurosceptic. He's synonymous with brexit.
He was a member of UKIP when that political party was popular and now he's leader of Reform.Reform is currently one of the largest political parties in the UK, currently a huge political threat to the Conservatives because they are chasing after a similar demographic of voters. They're potentially splitting the right-leaning votes so hard we may end up with a labour supermajority in this upcoming election.
He's in the news because he's prominent, and also unfortunately he's prominent because he's been featured in the news for a long time. People either agree with him heartily or despise him, so news on him tends to garner clicks.
I find Dragonflight to be average but competent. Which after Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands felt like a refreshing breeze. Dragonflight is a basic story, but they were incapable of telling the stories they wanted to tell in BFA and SL competently. It had some standout quests, like the dwarf you mentioned and I enjoyed the bronze dragonflight's storyline in this expac.
As a long time night elf player, I have some mixed feelings over the burning of Teldrassil. For one part, the BFA pre-launch quest in which the Alliance fail to save the tree in my opinion is one of the best quests they ever made, and it's a shame it's no longer accessible. We also later have a trailer for the battle of darkshore with Malfurion being a scary and vengeful marauder hunting down horde. That was cool, shame we didn't get more of that.
But the rest of the writing around the burning of Teldrassil seemed to mostly be in service of horde storylines, and night elves just suffered setbacks with no payoff. Unless you count getting burn scars and black eyes in the character creation a big deal. Like even in the PTR, they originally had the Forsaken raise Night Elves who then promptly joined them because they felt betrayed somehow? It was changed before release, but it just felt like the writers didn't think about alliance players much.
Then shadowlands rubbed salt in the wound by having Tyrande lose her powers as she's about to get revenge. We get told by Elune herself in her first speaking role that she let the night elves die for no good reason. And the story mostly focuses on Sylvanas and well I don't know how that finished I didn't stick around.
Anyway, all that said, I kept feeling like the last half of Dragonflight was the Night Elf apology tour. We get to regrow a tree, we get a new home and are no longer destitute refugees. Bel'Ameth had some night elf cosmetics to discover, quests to expand on Nelf stories. It was fun exploring this zone and just seeing NPCs in their new home.
Just felt like Teldrassil was burned for cheap drama that they never capitalised on, and with Amirdrassil they seem to be trying to undo that. I was always waiting for a new night elf home, back in BFA I thought it would have been more interesting if the alliance retook Gilneas and the Night Elves were invited to reside as a thanks for taking in Gilnean refugees during Cataclysm. But I'll take Amirdrassil and Bel'Ameth.