LAST EDITED ON Jun-30-14 AT 01:10 AM (EDT)
 
As the junior party here but the other significant contributor to this thread, I'd like to say that if any member of the production team had a problem with literary criticism, I'd have been banned from this forum a looooong time ago. I do two things here; get my nerd on, and gleefully deconstruct everything. I've never been made to feel less than welcome, although I occasionally have been made to feel very, very wrong.

This is not, mind you, to say that I think you're entirely full of it, Traitor. I too have some issues as to how villainy is handled in post-Exile UF, as I generally come out of the school of thought that says one should love ones villains with the same passionate intensity one loves ones heroes. Or, at the very least, should approach the writing of them from the perspective that in their own heads, these vile miscreants are in fact the heroes of their own stories. I may have some things to say about this the next time Akio makes a move. (I am anticipating that to be soon, if for no other reason than I can't see Akio not doing something upon the birth of his brand-new niece.)

But, well... one, there's a time when that's relevant, and I'm not sure right here is it, and two, this is the production team that brought us the Exile. Flawed though it often was in execution, they do understand that sometimes the villains need to get in a clear, unambiguous win, in order to keep things interesting and to make the eventual triumph that much more awesome. They've earned a bit of the benefit of the doubt.

-Merc
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