Beyond saying that I don't mind TonyG's stuff I still don't really get what the deal is with a large vocal group hating him in EvE, and I don't think I ever will. But this whole thing keeps reminding me of the Jar-Jar effect. Then again, I never hated Jar-Jar either. I think that in the end, people don't like things changing, and I would bet that if anyone else had written TEA with the same basic plotline of all the empires must go to war, whoever it was would have been hated just as much. But that is my opinion.
PS. Having watched that movie far too many times in high school chem and phsyics, I can't really feel emotional about it anymore, and can only mock it, and sing along off-key when that song comes on. It is only surpassed by whatever that song was that was from Titanic. But this is getting to be another topic, sorry.