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« on: June 18, 2013, 11:23:28 PM »
PS-- I think it's odd and perhaps interesting storytelling we're getting at this point, in that Barnabas is the central figure everything revolves around now, he's the "protagonist" in the sense of being the main actor and focus, his desires, goals, and threats to his well-being are what DS is about now.... yet he's not the good guy yet. He's still a bastard, though one who's toying with reforming a bit. Isn't that weird? Viewers can accept it if they saw him in 1795, before the curse, but I wonder what new viewers thought. Those who were in fact murderers and bastards I'm sure enjoyed it (they watch TV too!)....
OR... maybe it's no problem. Maybe we need much more of this kind of thing, stories in which we don't necessarily have to go along with the main character's morality. Maybe the audience in general would stretch themselves and grow a bit more, exposed to these complexities. Maybe stories like these work, and viewers aren't thrown by them... TV producers just think they would be.