See, that's kinda what I thought, but it seems pretty stupid to me regardless. Mickey is outright TOLD that if Sora tried to take on the memories of those connected to him when he was unprepared he wouldn't be able to handle it. Yes, they thought the exam was safe, but Sora still had the right to that information considering it directly affected him, differently from the Aqua thing, and Yen Sid and Mickey should have told him right away.
And Yen Sid apparently hasn't told him NOW either, and if they had any doubts on it, Riku probably cleared those up when he relied what happened inside Sora when he got the data from Ansem.
From an outside, more objective viewpoint it certainly is pretty stupid, also when considering that Sora often gets left out of the loop in general.
It's somewhat funny when you bring up Sora having "a right" to this information when until Re: Coded Yen Sid and Mickey were of exactly the opposite opinion and did not say anything regarding Ventus (and the whole BBS trio) because it is "none of Sora's business", then in Re: Coded they learn there IS a connection but remain still vague and dodgy about the whole thing for reasons only the writers and/or Nomura know.
We see it in the credits of BBS and also in the finale of DDD that Mickey apparently still considers his inability to prevent TAV from suffering their horrible fates a personal failure of himself and thus may have a drive to do the saving himself, but in the end those are all speculation and objectively spoken Yen Sid and/or Mickey not telling Sora about Ventus even now after DDD is simply stupidity, most likely for plot reasons to have a huge "surprise" in store somewhere over the course of KH III, a typical "Nomura-twist".
Apparently not, as there's no indication of it in the ending scenes of 0.2.
Yen Sid only speaks about those who need to be saved in general terms again shortly before immediately switching to the state of Sora's powers.
As we don't know what exactly Riku told Yen Sid and Mickey we can't really jump to conclusions here as he might just have spoken about his encounter with Ansem the Wise and the data he received, omitting the three-question stuff with Roxas, Ven and Xion.
I have to agree with that.
I don't mind Dolan and Gooby not remembering Ventus, to be honest, but the whole thing with them being in the tower in BBS WAS indeed a plothole. And, if I may add, such an unneeded one. They could've just NOT been there. But SE decided to put them there for no relevant reason.
If I had to make a wild guess the main reason Dolan and Gooby being placed there was in order for Ventus to get their D-Links (I actually forgot right now how Aqua gains them), although even
that could have been done easier and without bringing up needless mumbo-jumbo concerning Yen Sid's tower by simply having Dolan and Gooby present in Disney Town and let Aqua and Ven gain their D-Links there.
I'm just not a big fan of those scenes where a lot of characters randomly "pray" to the same person as their key of hope. Whoever liked it - good for them - for me it just seemed too much, similar to the weird usage of "may your heart be your guiding key" in 2.8.
If I am honest the whole underlining message that all these suffering people can actually be saved and gain another chance was the main enjoyable thing I got out of Blank Points in general, not so much the execution of the scenes.
The "may your heart be your guiding key"-issue rubs me somewhat the wrong way due to it being a) already overused right now and b) being such a
blatant Star Wars-rip off that it almost hurts.
Power Rangers had something similar in the 1990s with the "May the power protect you" (or whatever it was spelled in English, I know only the German variant by memory)-phrase uttered often by Zordon, so considering the "Power Rangers"-vibe of the Foretellers it might also be a rip off from this, but in Power Rangers this one was there from Episode 1 unlike the tacked on thingy we get with KH right now as I can't remember the phrase ever coming up in Browser-Chi.
This. And given that KH2 exists, I find it pretty hard to buy that Back Cover or 0.2 could really be the new "low points" for KH script and writing.
Agreed, KH's dialogue script really never was stellar to begin with.