there is! there's two, actually, one is that i genuinely feel like the resolution in terezi: remem8er is really, really good. like, when terezi: remem8er moves to show eridan in specific, it becomes clear what the purpose of that animation actually is, it solidifies the repeated beat of "the kids are alright" into something meaningful, as we see even the kids who weren't alright at the time are capable of being so, given the room to be better. that flash is like, 9 years old, i've seen it easily hundreds of times, and it hits every single time. i really, really respect homestuck's choice to depict death as freedom from narrative, and so it becomes a layered thing, to revive someone and bring them back into narrative's fold.

this is something that tavros being revived gets at - tavros's resurrection coincides with the actual plot kicking off - the first hints of what vriska's planning in the dreambubbles, the sprite dissolution, and jane's dream with meenah, and then he has a nonstop shit time that he only starts to buck like, earlier this month. its something that feferi being revived gets at, in that she was brought back to have a specific role in the narrative, but she doesn't want that at all, openly rejecting it using knowledge she could only have through her time outside the folds of the story's eye. and it's something that nepeta being revived gets at, being this character who came back with no intent to participate in the plot, but wanted to be alive again. and we don't get much reasoning from nepeta explicitly, but there is an implication when the first thing she does after returning is to start roleplaying with terezi: she wants to come back specifically because stories are fun. and eridan not coming back gets at this too, that a character simply not being in the story can be cathartic in itself.

the second is that eridan not coming back to life doesn't necessarily mean eridan won't be impactful narratively. it's hard to believe since the story on the other side of the black hole is only just starting, but act 2 opens up on things going on in the dreambubbles. it's not that eridan won't be in it, it's more that their role in the story is different. smaller than if they came back to life, sure, but i dont necessarily think a character being done right and a character getting more screentime are the same thing, and in fact, i kind of believe the more of the second there is, the less likely the first becomes