>>54387844>how does not having a magic space dragon mean no water? Everyone else functions just fine and has electricity.You need electricity (a lot of it) to operate a modern water treatment plant to run anything from the pumps that bring the water from A to B, to aeration systems that vent out contaminants and gas from untreated water. If Galar suddenly just ran out of energy, since it seems entirely reliant upon the Galar particles to power its infrastructure and urban way of life, they'd be completely fucked. It'd be ten years for Galar to figure out a way to either A. not use Galar particles and reconfigure vital infrastructure to function with other power sources or B. get a lot of Galar particles and then figure out A (or do B in another thousand years). I get that the idea of it being a midlife crisis gone awry and it has its merits, but the writer isn't obligated to follow that plot one-to-one.
This storybeat is interesting to think about because it would've added mystery ("just how much was he being honest, how deep does his futureproofing go, etc) to the plan that Rose has executed throughout the manga, but this exposition dump at the end of the arc is just way too inorganic to actually be meaningful. Instead, it's really abrupt and jarring based on Rose's conduct in the first half. There should've been actual insights to Rose's mind or goals that were done from the POV of Rose before the Darkest Day, rather than just those who worked with Rose (like the Gym Leaders or Leon) and eventually opposed him when Rose summons Eternatus.
Kusaka's got a second chance to fix some of these issues in 3-5 years when he starts full volumization of this arc, but he's got to fix the shitstorm that was SM and start with SV and the ten bajillion DLC that will trail that arc like a pack of wild dogs.
