What I really want to post is a question that has been in mind, well, since I started looking at all the grumbling over what canon is and the retcons and the wank.
Is there a correlation between a fan's experiences with authoritarian parents/teachers/role models and how accepting they are of new canon? You know, "Because Ann Said So" vs. "The Complication is all just fan fiction!"
Yeah, this is what I do with a BA in psychology.
ETA, Sept. 12, 2007 9:17am:
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ff_press has picked up on this, (And they gave it a nice and erudite title, too! I'm very sorry for anyone that was tempted to click on the title, expecting a detailed analysis, and only getting a somewhat open-ended question.) and I actually have responses. I just wanted to air a question that's been in my head since, well, Advent Children's release. No, fair responders, I didn't expect ff_press either to pick this up or for any responses. I'll get to them, really.ETA, Sept. 12, 2007 5:34pm: On reflection, I know I have to clarify myself. This is what I meant: "Is there any relationship, postitive or negative, between a fan's direct experiences with authoritarian people and how receptive they are to new items of canon as specified by the creative team or members appointed by the creative team?" I did not mean anyone considered an authority. I meant, specifically, those defined as highly demanding and poorly responsive. ("Do this now because I said so.")
The reason I asked the question is due to personal experience: I came from an authoritarian household and Roman Catholic tradition. Infallibility and "because I said so" are deeply ingrained into me. So, authorities are right, and I'm wrong. How much of this has colored my acceptance of the Compilation? Or is it something else?
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DC essentially recycles plotlines that Squeenix has used before. The Hojo/Vincent/Lucrecia backstory is okay (if a little weird) until you get to the point where she chooses Hojo. Her excuse for doing so is waaaay too flimsy. The whole Virtual Hojo thing is poorly conceived as well, as is the Omega motivation. Given the reasons for Omega's ascent, you'd think it would've arisen either during or after the Meteor/Geostigma crisis. Both play like weak workarounds more than plot devices.
The laziness in DC's story is bolstered by the laziness in its non-FMV graphics and especially its gameplay. I like shooters, and as far as gameplay goes, this was the worst one I ever played.
Also agreed about BC and LO. The fact that Sephiroth goes into the mako on his own free will doesn't make Cloud seem as strong as he really is. There's also the matter, at least in the latter, of Tifa being awake to see that it was Cloud who carried her off to the side in the reactor. Tifa wasn't supposed to know that Cloud was there at all—it's a major point of the original FFVII! I could go on, but anyway, I can't wait to see how CC will screw up this pivotal story even further. </sarcasm>
These Compilation projects may be canon, but that doesn't mean I can and will accept them as such, especially if they go against the spirit (and the facts) present in the original FFVII.
And no, I don't recall having any authotarian adult figures growing up, though I did have several who taught me the meaning of the word "quality".
But then, wassap, he gets his strength back because his friends need him. And he still has payback to dish out. In short, Cloud's story is about overcoming extreme adversity in grand fashion.
Sephiroth running away takes all of that and tosses it in the crapper.
I'm semi-agreed on Tifa. But maybe she was so out of it at the time that she forgot. Mind you, she has a penchant for getting amnesia at around the time where she ends up unconscious for a week. I think Madhouse (the guys who made LO) just put that part in as an easter egg, because those were Tifa's exact words in the original game, overlapping the flashback at that point. However, maybe they also thought that Tifa was actually saying that at that point (mind you, in the game, her eyes are still open, and she looks right at Cloud). But in any case, it sorta does mess up the story without having to come up with all sorts of lame excuses. *shrug*
Oh, absolutely. It was awe-inspiring to see little Cloud, who never made it into SOLDIER, pick himself up with the Masamune running through his chest and kill Sephiroth (well, his physical being, anyway)! LO sucked most all the awe and inspire out of that pivotal scene.
However, maybe they also thought that Tifa was actually saying that at that point (mind you, in the game, her eyes are still open, and she looks right at Cloud).
As for the Tifa thing, yeah, that's probably the only way to explain it—as a misunderstanding on the part of whoever wrote LO's script. For such an important detail to be left unchecked kind of smacks of a lack of oversight, though.