Audience interpretation isn't usually uniform and I don't think it's meant to be. But even differing opinions can be equally valid. I don't know how I got the impression that M&B expect Mai to be taken as a redeemed character, or an essentially good one. Which has been my opinion all along - she's not presented as definitely either/or and either view is valid to degree.
Like the point about what matters more the end of the story or the journey, I think it's interesting how different aspects of the audience can see the same thing, get the same meaning but leave with different levels of... satisfaction?
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Date: 2009-02-26 07:42 pm (UTC)Like the point about what matters more the end of the story or the journey, I think it's interesting how different aspects of the audience can see the same thing, get the same meaning but leave with different levels of... satisfaction?