Quote Originally Posted by Raven2014 View Post
And ... what is exactly the point you're trying to make? Even if thing is not absolutely objective, that doesn't mean subjective is the one free get out of jail card. It's the same thing with "opinion". Sure, you can have any opinion you want, but what you cann't do is demand the opinion to be respected if it fails to stand up to merit.

- I hate anything Shakespeare and I can give a list of why I think its stupid. That won't change the fact his works is universally hold in high-regard.

- You can say the 5$ BigMac taste better than a craft-burger made from the finest cut of NewYork steak, and that's fine. But it won't change the fact the latter is much higher quality.

- You can claim your schoolband sounds 10x better than the performance of the Tokyo ochestra. And that's fine, maybe that's really true to you, but I hope you won't believe that you can convince anyone of that.

The point is, EW was hold to high esteemed universally while DT is criticized across the board. Sure, it may not be an scientifically and objectively fact and it's completely fine even if someone prefer DT over EW. But to defend DT's from an "objective" argument is a bit of a disillusion argument. To you, maybe a cheap patty does taste better than a cut of New York steak, but trying to make an objective/subjective argument out of it is really just waxing philosophy.
To re-summarize, my point was to show that literary criticism just supports a person's personal subjective opinion on a work. But it does not, and never will, make it anything beyond a subjective opinion. No matter how detailed you make your analysis of it. That was really my sole interest in the topic.

But if you're reaaaaally attempting to use popular opinion as a metric to show that a subjective opinion is more right, then I'd like to take the opportunity to remind you that, as imperfect as review sites are, Steam still has Dawntrail holding at 61% positive user reviews, and Metacritic has balanced around 52% positive, 13% mixed, and 35% negative. As well as generally favorable critical reviews. So doesn't that mean that your opinion is the one in question by your own estimations? Doesn't sound like it's being "criticized across the board" to me.