Lines

Thinking over the recent 100 Bullets I realized I only have two lines that a character can't cross where I can no longer put them in the "hero" box. The first is rapists. I can't think of a single character that I find redeemable once they get the rapist part added to them. The closest is Tommy on Rescue Me. And the scene with his ex-wife isn't very clear whether its meant to cross that line from violent sex to rape. No I take that back. I can think of ONE character. Kim from Something Positive. I'm able to still like her character, but thats pretty much ENTIRELY based on how Davan reacts to finding out she molested him while he was in pain med hallucinatory state. But I know there are lots of fans for who that moment totally destroyed her character for them...

The other line, and this is where it relates back to 100 Bullets, are child killers. When two of the Minutemen execute the Rhone family they cross the line from Anti-hero to Villain for me. The same happened with Zephyr of Cassanova. After her murder of the Russian child I was actually annoyed when she was "rescued" along with Cass' mom. Or with the 3rd Star Wars prequel. The entire Redemption of Anakin bit in Return of the Jedi? No longer works for me. It doesn't matter that he turns from the Dark Side and being Vader at the end there. He's still the evil bastard who cuts down the Jedi trainee kids in Revenge of the Sith. You go to hell, you do not pass go, you do not collect Good Guy Force Ghost...

Thursday Night Thinking

And as Thursday rolls around again, Diamondrock asks, are you pondering what I'm pondering?


This week Kimiko “Thunderbolt” Ross considers the nature of memory