Like I’ve been saying, man - Yours would be a perfectly fine direction to take a story; I just don’t see evidence of it in this story. I’m not trying to claim my interpretation as definitive either, but I’ve tried to back it up with supportive evidence. It’s not a personal attack against you or your opinions; it’s just discourse. You can have any interpretation of a story that you want, provided that you can support it with evidence from the text. (In this case, “the text” being the script and the direction, not the novel.)

But really, I suggested removing and/or changing…one line of dialogue? I’d hardly call that “a radical path,” or “removing tons of different portions of the film.” It’s a change that would benefit the direction that we’ve already been taking the movie, so it’s not like I’m trying to rock the boat here with some wacky new angle that I think we should all adopt. I’m arguing for thematic clarity, as themes are important parts of storytelling. And I figure, yeah, I could remove that line; but maybe other people would want it changed too. I didn’t realize that removing this one line was crossing a line, after 100+ other changes have already been made.

Honestly, this just turned into a repeat of the “Leia sent me a transmission” debacle, where I suggested removing one (different) line of dialogue, and it turned into a four page comment battle about people’s headcanons. It’s one line, and it’s just a suggestion. An important suggestion, I think, when discussing themes; but a suggestion nonetheless.