I'd also like to say thank you to Ian for his post. Ian gives me something interesting to comment on with my 200th post. And since Pudding said nothing about a long response from me, I'll feel free to post.
I agree with 95% of what you've said. I would only add that even though we are fans, that does not give us the right to attack or be insulting. Maybe you were trying to convey that with your post and if so, my apologies. However, I think if we look at the amount of critical posts on this forum, we'd see only a small portion, about 5% to 10%, provoke a response from Meat Loaf. Why? I'll leave that question up to everyone else's perspective.
And to Pudding, I'd like to play chess or some other game of strategy with you (if I'm not doing that already). I think that would be interesting as your posts, while seemingly harmless, definitely have a strategy.
