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« on: October 09, 2006, 05:36:23 PM »
This has nothing to do with whether we want to see Carl live or not. The problem is that Barnabas killed him. It's the immoraity or amorality of it. And Carl wasn't like Willie at all. You don't kill an innocent relative, a decent guy who just wanted to save his fiancee, to shut him up.
Part of my point was that the murder was SO reprehensible AND stupidly self-destructive too, that it can't just be a writer's "blunder", a failed tactic to get JK out of DS. The writers must have thought about what they were doing, and had some reason for it, dramatically. Add to this the fact that this one act sets off everything that happens after this. He's discovered partly because of the murder, and it makes Edward determined to slaughter Barnabas. It's a pivotal moment for the writers, not a whim.
It's hard to see the act as an attempt to show something about the character of Barnabas when no character, no friend of Barnabas's, ever stops during all these events and says out loud, "Barnabas, what you've done is despicable (I can't get Daffy Duck out of my head after typing that)." So an impression is left that we're supposed to approve. Maybe they expected us to figure it out for ourselves, though.