Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181110034633/@comment-36817091-20181111093434

However moral they are or aren't, I don't see any satisfying conclusion that doesn't involve the heroes deposing the Old Gods, even if it's as simple as talking them down a la Sheridan. The cup's been filled; it must be emptied. Without deposing them, there are only three alternatives, in increasing order of "yeah, they might try to pull this":

1. The Old Gods return and wipe out humanity - what a story, Mark!

2. The Old Gods return to take a direct role in humanity, as they did humanity of old. Maybe, but it feels like a slight against the world RT has created, having clearly developed well beyond the fairy tale world in which such beings feel at home.

3. Disaster is averted, the relics kept separate, kicking the judgment can down another generation.

None of those seem to work. Of them, the third seems most likely, but it carries the first and the second with it.