No, I'm with you on this one. I don't mind if my heroes make mistakes. I don't mind if they have weak moments and get led astray and hit rock bottom, as long as it is acknowledged that they have done wrong and redeem themselves afterward. I love a good redemption arc. What I don't like is being told that it's okay for them to compromise their moral standard, because when you start blurring the boundaries like that it is only ever the start of a slippery slope down to saying that there are no standards or boundaries needed at all, that there is no such thing as right or wrong, only two sides of the same fence.
I think it's what makes me so uncomfortable about how negatively SN has portrayed the angels and heaven and whatnot - I need there to actually be something good about the side that is supposed to be good! And it isn't good enough, to me, to say 'oh, but the hunters are the force of good'. There has to be something to differentiate heaven and hell, or what's the point?
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Date: 2009-07-29 08:08 am (UTC)I think it's what makes me so uncomfortable about how negatively SN has portrayed the angels and heaven and whatnot - I need there to actually be something good about the side that is supposed to be good! And it isn't good enough, to me, to say 'oh, but the hunters are the force of good'. There has to be something to differentiate heaven and hell, or what's the point?