phimseto wrote...
I find my supposition no more disagreeable than buying what we're told as dogmatic truth. Nor did I say it would stink. And again that's smoke and mirrors to what I have been saying. And yes, I know Wall had a team, but I'm not going to keep specifying that and you're beginning to sound like that scene in "Life of Brian" where one guy is reading the rules and Eric Idle keeps interjecting "...or her." I have said from my original post:
1. Narrative continuity in music is as important as plot, character, and other creative contributions in the ME trilogy.
2. Replacing the composer for the first two games with another (no matter how talented) for the third is a poor creative decision because you lose that narrative continuity.
And I can reasonably state it because Mansell is not Wall. There's no getting around that. Mansell will be informed by his own creative processes, and those are different from Wall's. No matter the kind of job he does tying in the previous two games, it is like backwards compatibility more than Wall's original score representing an ongoing forward process.
As great a job as Brandon Sanderson is doing finishing off The Wheel of Time, he is not Robert Jordan. No matter how good a job he does, we will never have that full series of Jordan's vision that fans of the Wheel of Time would like to have had. Musically, this is the same case. Wall started something that he will not be able to finish, for whatever reason. Mansell may do a fine job, but the trilogy is a lesser experience for Wall's (*cough* and his team's) absence.
Taking what the guy says as probably true, isn't the same as accepting it blindly as gospel truth; nor is suspecting that it's a cover-up the same as stating, as if it's a fact, that he's lying. You don't have to accept Wall's statement as gospel truth, but you don't have to claim he's lying, either...
As for Brandon Sanderson - his work for Wheel of Time isn't an indication of how good Clint Mansell's work will be, because it's not an example of Clint Mansell's experience in a similar situation. You can't predict, based on a completely different composer, how Clint Mansell's work will be for ME3. Like I said, one purple person being a jerk, doesn't mean they all are.
In any case, Clint Mansell is now the composer, like it or not. Given that this is now the point we're at, do you really think it's a good idea to approach ME3 with the looking glass you currently have? Because if you do, then your mind is probably going to be so eager to see inconsistency where there is none, that it will all be amplified a thousand times and you won't be able to appreciate anything good about it. Which would be a shame if his work for the game turns out not only to be consistent with the series (which it certainly could be, and I have muchos faith it will), but also some of the best in the series.
Personally I'm glad about this news, and much of my concerns about ME3's direction have been alleviated by this
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Jack Wall flaked out...for whatever reason.
