redemption arcs!

[deird1]

On Mark Watches this morning, someone made the following comment:

I still have pretty much zero sympathy for Faith because I'm too busy sympathizing for the people she's assaulted, raped, tortured, and murdered. I'm actually kind of offended by the writer's attempt to make me feel bad for her because she is an objectively terrible human being.

- characters who assault people do not deserve sympathy
- characters who rape people do not deserve sympathy
- characters who torture people do not deserve sympathy
- characters who murder people do not deserve sympathy

So, out of all the Buffyverse characters, this person likes... Tara? And maybe Dawn?


Call me crazy, but I'd say that if you can't sympathise with characters who do terrible things to people, maybe BtVS is not the show for you.

Comments

[gabrielleabelle]

As someone who almost gave up on him, I've found his last several posts much more substantial and interesting. Though I hadn't read any of his AtS posts except for the Faith episodes. But his Buffy ones have certainly improved.

[zanthinegirl]

Oh? Good to know! I'll totally check him out again in that case.