The Nature of Kingdom Hearts

[PuPu]

I already understand this but I feel the answer is completely unsatisfactory and contradicts information already stated in the series (and the Director's Reports no less).

No...it really doesn't.

The world's are separate by a great distance of space in all cases (even the Beach of Nothingness is stated to peer into the World of Darkness by Nomura, he never said you could reach it by being there.)

Because KH is in a specific part of the World of Darkness, one which TWTNW happens to be near.

and the World of Darkness presented in KH1 is locked away

Mickey, Riku, and the Heartless disagree with this statement.

and yet here's Xemnas, with a Kingdom Hearts in his backyard as if it was always like this.

Um, ya. It's convenient, but it's true.

Even if they were in "spitting distance" the worlds should be technically separate from each other by a barrier after the events of KH1. Its obvious that Xemnas didn't use a Corridor of Darkness to reach KH nor did DiZ when he tried to digitize KH.

Did you miss the whole "Kingdom Hearts isn't a world" deal?

Kingdom Hearts is treated as physically existing in that world despite this contradicting the info given in KH1.

There's obviously more than one way to get to KH. You saw one way in KH1, and you see another way in KH2. It's not contradictory at all, it was never implied that there was only one way to get to KH.

The worlds didn't create the DTD of KH1, the Seven Princess's of Heart created the means to reach it with the Final Keyhole.

Alright, I'll give you that.

KH1 pretty much implies that the DTD is at a specific location

You've got to stop doing this. It didn't "imply" it at all, that place where you fought Xehanort's Heartless in KH1 is really just a random location and not specific at all location that's very close to the Realm of Darkness.

just as it also implies Kingdom Hearts (or at least the Heart of Worlds) is located in a specific place (World of Darkness)

...with more than one way of getting there.

how then can KH and the DTD be ethereal and intangible things that come and go on a whim as KHII implies?

KH didn't come and go on a whim at all. It's in the Realm of Darkness in KH1, still in the Realm of Darkness in KH2. How can the DTD come and go on a whim? It doesn't matter how, all that matters is that it did. When Sora, Mickey, and Riku sealed it in KH1, it went poof and it appeared out of thin air when they needed to open it again. But, as Mickey said, the worlds did it.

Basically are there two Kingdom Hearts as Nomura implies in his interview? Is the Heart of Worlds located in the Realm of Darkness and is the Heart of Man an abstract concept that exist wherever it wishes to be?

Saïx: Pitiful Heartless, mindlessly collecting hearts. And yet they know not
the true power of what they hold. The rage of the Keyblade releases those
hearts. They gather in darkness, masterless and free...until they weave together
to make Kingdom Hearts [of men].

If both are one part of the true Kingdom Hearts, how then can Xemnas
and Heartless Xehanort truly achive their goals by only obtaining what
appears to be one half of the cosmological whole?

</pre>Have you been paying attention at all? The KH of worlds already existed, and as Saix said, Xemnas made the KH of men and combined it with the KH of worlds. That's both KH's that he had, until Ansem the Wise blew up the KH of men with his machine, causing most, if not all of the hearts that Xemnas collected to rain down from the sky. As for XH, he only cared about the darkness in KH, not the power that KH has itself.

Or is KH something like a physics and philosophical allusion to the Christian concept of the Trinity? Being both tangible and intangible, being a place both physically and metaphorically.

Uh...no?

This is ultimately what I'm trying to discover and regretfully, Nomura's interview only makes the issue more difficult to comprehend.

Why? Just because it disagrees with your own views?