>>2906563To get anywhere at all, we are going to have to take one thing at a time. This means we will get to everything eventually. Lets settle the matter of audience reaction and obligation.
I believe we last got to a point where we established the basics:
The audience never has the obligation to like or find interesting any given work - even if they were interested in or liked a previous iteration of the work.
Change the recipe of a meal, and it wont taste the same. It follows that no one is obligates to like Rei/Rei Q or even the Rebuilds themselves. They still need to deliver the same quality the original did.
Therefore the audience reaction is not only understandable, it is expected and sane.
So moving on, the point we were currently considering was whether the authors opinion or the work itself should dictate what what is true or not about the work. Should we say that the Angels have AT fields because the story says it, or because Anno says it?
