this article was linked to on a general final fantasy thread on FFXII.net, and i thought it was very interesting. it's very long, but i'd recommend reading it all through! and let me know what you think!

http://www.angelfire.com/yt2/zforce6455/lit/ff7.html


much love!

I agree with most of it. FFVII was indeed a game that held so many symbolic elements and touched a lot of people on an emotional level. There will never be another RPG like it!

Ah, that'S the Brittenham theorie. It comes up every few months and tends to split the community in two :whistle: .
I think most people believe it'S crap because the author IS making lots of logical mistakes+asumptions, however it opens the eyes to many things that are left unnoticed most of the time and that are worth thinking about. I absolutely love it.

So, it is definitely worth reading but it should not be taken word by word but rather give new impulses and ideas to think about. Of this it really offers plenty. :winner:

i didnt know it had an actual label as a theory! lol...

yeah, there was some of it that was either disproven by Advent Children or just by certain amounts of common sense, but i liked the ideas it presented (and got us thinking about). a must read for every ff7 fanatic, if for no other reason than having that information in your brain :)


much love!

I read this on IMDb a while ago, so I didn't bother with a reread. From what I remember, it seemed so much like the author was trying to fit the game into their theory. Besides, much of it was disproven in AC like the elaborations of how Jenova was the true enemy of the game and not Sephiroth.

But if you guys want to merit it, be my guest. :lol: I personally disagreed with it overwhemingly.

The only thing I disagree with is that it was "disproven" by AC. AC proves nothing. It is a-years-after-the-original-fanservice-thingy. In the Reunion Files Normura even admitted that they changed for example Clouds character to being emo again just because it would be easier to create AC this way - he admitted in the same sentence, that that was not what FFVII ended with. They ignored how the story is and what it meant in order to make a more flashy sequel - how can this mean anything for the original?

I really hate it when AC is used as proof, as excuse...or anything else. You can beat the Brittenham-Theorie to the ground with FFVII alone and you wouldn't be that wrong - but NOT with AC. It was written long before AC was even dared to be thought about, so there is no way it can be perceived through what AC made out of it.

I'm alright with evreyone who disagrees with it on base of FFVII however, it helped me alot back when I read it for the first time.
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