I didn't really care about how forced Lightning's drama cutscene was because I felt it was one of the best cutscenes in the game, and it's not like forced situations aren't common (and in VI's opera scene, highly regarded by the masses) to Final Fantasy. Final Fantasy is the Queen of Forced Situations (Uncharted is King).

I didn't say I disliked Snow's development but that I felt it was a shame, because I miss the ol' goofy Snow. Sure, sometimes that kind of character development is good, but it's still a shame that he found himself in such a situation.

I think it's amusing that Lightning's emotions are gone and how she seems so astonished at "not caring" at certain points because the fact that she is pointing it out in such a way shows that on some level she does care. She at one point says she wasn't confused, and I kind of went "Huh? You're confused about not being confused? What the--" I think Lightning has about as much emotion as she's ever had, which is not much at all (on the outside). She's cold, but she always had emotions and they're blatantly there regardless of what the writers want to have us believe.