I'm sorry, I never got far enough in FFX to find out about the Fayth (or if I did, I forgot--I realized that I forgot a lot of the game since the last time I played it). I don't really understand that comparison. I'd argue about the idea of "limited omniscience" (that phrase kinda cracks me up, though), mostly because the Cie'th missions indicate that being a crystal doesn't leave you with any sort of omniscience or knowledge of events outside your own crystal. I could agree that Fang and Vanille are special cases, since they chose to become Ragnarok and then crystallized, and everyone else was freed?

Well, it's obvious that FFX is my least favorite of the FF games. >.> But! Since it is Final Fantasy, I feel obligated to both play it and acknowledge its strengths (it does have them, imho, even if the flaws vastly outweigh these for me). My ultimate attachment is to the franchise, which I grew up with. So seeing new life being breathed into all the FF fandoms is awesome for me. I'm all for FF being back in people's minds. Hell, I'm replaying old games, myself (though I'm distracted by obsessively collecting trophies in FF13, and I almost have them all, just need to do the Treasure Hunter one, then beat Orphan with a 5-star, and then bam! Done! :D).