Right. Now, if he'd been showing up at the end of each episode, tsk-tsking over the new dead bodies, we might be well on our way to rehabilitating him out of his "I am the antagonist; therefore I must be wrong" rut.
Of course, to script it that way, the show would have to be conscious of its human-disposability attitude, which, far be it from them to admit that anything that happens within a story has actual meaning.
no subject
Date: 2008-02-01 03:08 pm (UTC)Of course, to script it that way, the show would have to be conscious of its human-disposability attitude, which, far be it from them to admit that anything that happens within a story has actual meaning.