I enjoyed this reaction so much. Worth the wait for you to get here.

About to dig into the video, but the thing is derivative works are older than a lot of writing conventions we use today. The three act structure, for one thing.

Are we just going to dismiss Virgil? Shakespeare?

Frigging Batman?

Which is a weird way to think when actual experts often disagree on a piece of media. There is a world of difference between a bad faith critic (you just thought of one) and a critic with a different perspective then you.

Yeah, it's a rough one. So sorry.

Yeah. Volume 8 is a rough one to get through. It's well done, and worth it, but rough.