[ SECRET POST #2448 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2448 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Especially when they start going "Death of the Author"

[ariakas]

RE: FFVIII. There is a large contingent of people who played the game and felt that the story and themes pre-third disc had a great deal of potential, and that potential is squandered in the late game by turning it into nothing more than - as you say - a sappy romance worthy of a Hallmark card. If Rinoa is Ultimecia (which, given the evidence, I believe was the original intention - later changed when they decided to take a different, and terrible, trajectory with the story) it restores some of that potential.

RE: Ender's Game. None of that changes the fact that Card went back on his own statements and even revised the original work to correct what he perceived (belatedly) as an incorrect interpretation, when he'd accepted that interpretation - and even supported it - before as his own views changed.

Card's far from the only author to do this, either. Nor is Ender's Game the only book he's done the "no no it really meant this" interpretative retcon with, as the poster above me pointed out. Thus, Death of the Author is not only a valid perspective from which to critique literature, in some cases - such as Card's - one must do so.

Re: Especially when they start going "Death of the Author"

[feotakahari]

I'll give you that it's not an author's place to change what he said earlier. (I argued that in a lower comment in relation to Ray Bradbury and Fahrenheit 451.) And I'll back off on FFVIII, since I clearly don't know enough about it to argue with you.