Quote Originally Posted by CrownySuccubus View Post
I dunno. The fact that Yoshi P's reaction to how the "junior writers" handled Y'shtola in 6.1 can be summarized as "Guys, what kind of amateurish fan fiction is this?!" gives me some modicum of hope.
Aren't he and Ishikawa responsible for that though? Her for giving the junior writers full freedom and him for wanting something 'light' after 6.0? It's quite possible I'm also just being overly pessimistic. :P Yoshi-P has admitted to having a hand in a few things I didn't like about EW (and I suspect others). Not to mention him hamstringing Matsuno. Ishikawa is capable of better and we also know that Yoshi-P rushed this storyline that she thought would be going to 8.0. It's good to see that he wants to maintain some character integrity (yet uses fan favorite Emet as his mouthpiece), but I'm not confident.

Quote Originally Posted by Brinne View Post
Once again, though, I understand people who find the continued sympathy extended towards Hermes - and asking us to give him certain forms of benefits of the doubt that aren't well-supported by the text - extremely frustrating.
Mostly because it feels like one step forward and two steps back. We're finally able to have the nuance with Venat that was so desperately needed throughout 6.0 only for Hermes to now be presented as having had a positive benefit. I appreciate your thoughts on the matter though. It's difficult to tell at this point what's intended anymore and after EW I tend to take the most negative view. Not to mention, if you haven't seen the discussions about it, there have been a substantial amount translation inconsistencies to the point that I'm having to run everything by a FR friend to see if I'm getting the whole story in EN.

I'm glad there's going to be more clarification. Even the Watcher dialog at the end is being picked apart. I'm sitting here thinking we're all desperate for answers and we're still getting ambiguity.