He never said you can't control epona, he said you don't have to. Very big difference.
Did they not say in the demo starfox would come out first or did i imagine that? lol
I think this looked nicer than the E3 dmeo, but like you said, it's hard to tell
They did! That's why I said that for starfox lol.
Well that's neat I suppose, I hope you can do the slow-mo thing with a sword too, maybe when you're in the air you either do an upward slash or a fatal blow on your enemy 
Pretty sure you can control her, but if you let off the control stick she won't stop, and just keep going in that general direction while avoiding trees.
Honestly, the world looks really barren right now, there's some framerate issues, and it isn't as beautiful as it was at E3, but I have faith they'll fix those problems.
Yeah... it is pretty big, but the map made it look small when he zoomed out all the way...
I wonder what that magic bar was for, hmm...
And no weapon slots either.
I think we only got gameplay because they're saving story elements and stuff for E3.
He was trolling you the whole time.
I know, but he was wrong 
They should bring back the ocarina so that you can call Epona instead of having to search for her...