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Current Talk '06 II / Re: Moments that made you go "WHAT?!!!!"
« on: October 08, 2006, 07:02:28 PM »
I think some of the people who find Carl's death so hard to accept might be laboring under the misconception that Barnabas somehow became a good guy. Yes, Barn often does things to try to protect his family/friends, but he's not a good guy by any means in the classic sense. He lies, cheats, manipulates, browbeats and, yes, even murders a family member if he sees it as a means to an end - and it doesn't even have to be for his own ends. In a book of principles that Barn might use to rule his life, one most certainly would not find one that reads "Do No Harm." That fact is actually one of the things that makes Barn a fascinating character: Right in the middle of doing something seemingly heroic, he can turn on a dime and do something reprehensible if he sees it as a means to an end.