@DarthAsthma:
I've read Campbell, but I don't see what that does for your argument when you pretty say you were wrong in the next sentence.
Look that's my major problem right here of why I don't think your arguments are very convincing even when the thing you want to argue for has merit.
Again you make very broad general statements that are "surprise" wrong, as general statements tend to be. Or you take an argument and don't frame in the appropriate way.
See right here I already addressed this but this was a major point of why many thought Soma was going to win.
He didn't breeze through everything until this point, he had his failings, heck he just came out of a loss with his dad which I believe many of us took as his "lesson learned".
You're so focused on arguing how clear cut it was because of "patterns" when it really wasn't and when actually your strongest arguments should come from the angle of why Hayama was actually a more important character than most of us thought he was. Because that right there was what many of us didn't get right.
No reason to be sorry, your post isn't hard to understand.
I really don't see how you can keep saying I was wrong.
Did Hayama beating Soma in the preliminaries kill all the tension for the finals? No
Does it make Soma more motivated to beat Hayama in the finals now that he faulted here? Yes
Would the finals be more interesting now that Soma can learn from his mistake and face Hayama in the finals? Probably
Soma isn't trying to overcome his father this arc, he is trying to overcome Hayama. That was clearly built up from the very moment Soma issued his challenge to Hayama to beat him at his own game.
Be honest, does Soma losing here kill all tension and make the finals meaningless now like everyone else predicted? Or is it elevated now? I predicted he'll get more points from the judges that didn't give Hayama a perfect score just to create more friction between them. And isn't it true that Hayama looks really peeved now that Soma beat him in that respect despite getting more overall points? What I'm trying to predict and argue here creates more tension and story development, despite everyone else saying I was wrong and it would be meaningless and kill all tension and story.
I'm arguing from the start that Soma faltering here, builds tension for the final showdown. Was I wrong there? If you truly feel that the finals are completely meaningless now just because Soma lost here, then I'll admit I was wrong. Most story arcs follow that pattern as with all the examples I keep giving, despite the number of antagonists. If I'm the only one seeing this pattern then fine, I'm crazy and my prediction was just a fluke.
@Purple:
I think that Campbell more or less hits that most narratives will contain these elements, but that doesn't necessitate that each narrative keeps each element of the theory at any one time was I think a discussion I had in English class. They'll follow the general template but not every part will probably be there. For an entire arc you could have it follow that arc where the main character gets beat up and comes back with a vengeance, but it definitely does get more convoluted with this new third party coming in. But we'll see how the writing goes from here seeing how the rest of the series was handled so far pretty good.
I'll agree that Soma winning every match without breaking a sweat doesn't make for a particularly good story, but if not here, then, as the minor characters (lol) said, Hayama's basically the incarnation of curry, so beating him at his own game would have been the deciding factor. It also kinda gives a backhanded stab at Soma's pops encouraging him by telling him not to lose to anyone until he challenges him again. Of course, it's helped that 3/5 of the judges liked Soma's dish better, but if we move beyond the curry dishes, then Soma will not have achieved a straight victory over Hayama in that field. But well, so it goes.
Anyway it seems like Chappelle is hinting that the main tourney is gonna be 1v1 so let's see how that goes.
Eh, I don't feel Soma failed his father just because he lost by one point here. Like you said, some of the judges preferred Soma's dish better and Hayama probably doesn't really consider this a true win just yet.
I still highly doubt they would move beyond the curry dishes, it would seem like a slap in the face if the finals suddenly changed to Mexican style cooking or something after all the prep work on curry they did. At the very least it would still be something related to curry I hope.
But who knows, maybe the mystery guy would knock Hayama out and change everything up, and for the finals they would have to make ice cream.