I didn't post to answer the question, nor am I intending on contributing to the intended topic.
Exactly, I'm being more useful than you are. We're in agreement.
The closest thing you have offered to advice is the comment about the 8 most powerful words and it comes across more of a statement that you attended a lecture than anything helpful, not to mention the fact that it's totally irrelevant to the simple question the poor guy asked.
If you're talking **** on Jon Stetson then we're going to have a problem.
Are you seriously going to attempt to argue that I'm wrong about crowd control being more important than knowing a crap-load of tricks?
If you need the thought developing then you still have a long way to go.
Ooh, taking the kid gloves off now, are we?
I will oblige though and clarify that "a lot of the most powerful magic has the most severe angle restrictions" is totally wrong. There is plenty of very powerful magic that has minimal or no angle considerations, but I guess that's the developing attitude of young performers that are growing up on TV and YouTube magic.
So there is a lot of magic that has no angle restrictions. I noticed that is not an absolutist statement. But neither was the one you were attempting to refute.
Also, I'm going to go ahead and guess in that thought equation of yours, stage illusions never factored into it. Or are we now assuming that stage illusions no longer count?