This was a pretty awesome thread with Formy, Edge7, myself and a few others, discussing the themes of FFVII and little things we picked up on it from our time in Academia. IMO VII was the only one in the series to come and and say some interesting stuff about society, beyond "[x] sucks because the bad guys in this game are evil."
Then they had to go and ruin it by making Sephiroth the stereotypical main villain. FF7, after you leave Midgar, has very little to offer
This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel...