Nah, Sylvanas and Alleria have always been written as immensely talented with their rangering. Yeah they nepo-babied their position, but they’re also actually qualified for it.
One poorly choreographed cutscene doesn’t wipe away the decades of writing elsewhere in that regard.
I don’t like this as a retcon, even less than the already-established character butchery in BFA and SL.
She was good enough to seriously vex Arthas, who was not only a semi-competent military commander himself but also commanding the hordes of the ravening undead.
“Oh, she was a bit useless, actually” is just… nah. They couldn’t write her well. Again with the This Is A Bit Of A Recurring Theme, And Why?
That is fair. Just thought I’d point the part of her lack of merit in her initial ranking. Maybe reading too much into the whole cutscene on my part.
By the time she was made Ranger-General she did have plenty of accomplishments under her belt and a reputation for it. If she hadn’t got the job, Lor’themar would have, and on the subject he said…
Lor’themar Theron says: Sylvanas Windrunner was our kingdom’s protector. Had she and her rangers not met Arthas with such fierce resistance, our people might no longer exist.
A soft admittance, perhaps, that he wouldn’t have been able to do what she did. At the very least he credits her contributions against Arthas as preventing the total extermination of the Thalassians.
Sometimes, rarely, nepo babies do deserve their position. Like anyone from the Skarsgard family of actors.
It’s a fair angle to consider, but I think this is one of those “Someone went for Rule of Cool (again) and didn’t consider Actually, That’s Bloody Stupid™ when making this cinematic” situations.
Which is, admittedly, rare. The WoW cinematics team is usually doing their best Atlas impression, viz a viz carrying the entire rest of the team on their shoulders most of the time. They sometimes get to tag-team with the music devs, too.
I feel a weird relationship with my age.
On one hand, I don’t feel like my age, and people consistently read me as significantly younger and get surprised when I tell them the truth.
On the other hand, I keep ranting about Kids These Days™ and how back in my day we spoke intelligible language and didn’t have this Internet brainrot.
Is this just part of growing old?
Ill assume so because everything you said felt entirely too relatable.
the sorrow of growing older is losing touch with what The Kids™ are up to
the joy is getting to say just slightly out of date slang and watch all life and hope die from their eyes
yeet yeet
I used to be ‘with it’ but then they changed what ‘it’ was and now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary to me!
It’ll happen to you!
The resistance put up by Silvermoon and the High Elves, Sylvanas especially actually enranged and frustrated Arthas incredibly. People focusing on the rule of cool animation kinda forget that Blood of the Highborne and the Arthas novel paint the Scourge invasion of Silvermoon as a brutal struggle that only really succeeded through the traitor Drathir.
Anasterian threw some god damn hands for a sickly old man.
I have a long-term investment in dabbing around my daughter 13 years from now.
No way old gnome! Ill keep rocking forever!
Forever!
Forever.
Forever…
For…ever…
the sacred duty of a parent is to mildly mortify your children 
I feel like every single thing that has been added to or changed the invasion of Quel’thalas after the 2002 release of Wacraft 3 has been kinda stupid and made it worse.
Shout out for the early naughties pout and peace selfie pose too.
It’s why Reforged needed to be an actual remake - it’s exceptionally weird to play warcraft 3, go into WoW thinking you know the story and then being like ‘wait who the hell is this dar’khan dude’ and then you find out that it’s from some random book where a dragon dates a well who turns into a girl sometimes and decide that actually you don’t need to know about it thanks
still less complicated than him dating jaina
i feel its a fever dream sometimes that she boinked the aspect of magic. i dont feel this is real but also it is
The manga was an absolute acid trip tbh. You have all these elven dressed elves and Drathir is just walking around in his pimp hat like ???
Only I may do Simpsons related things in here.
Get your own thing.
Why is he called Dar’khan?
None of the other elves have names like that.
shut up flanders
before he served the scourge he simply served