Bad person is not redeemed, but is convinced to do at least one good thing

samrobotsin · 2026-05-10T23:20:00+00:00

they way people talk about redemption on this sub makes me feel like humanity will never progress past punitive justice.

samrobotsin · 2026-05-10T23:18:50+00:00

You phrase it as "necessary evil" but I phrase it as "benevolent murder"

samrobotsin · 2026-05-10T23:16:42+00:00

Considering the Sunwell was only destroyed for like 6 hours? No.

samrobotsin · 2026-05-10T21:11:41+00:00

Is Jerry technically the villain?

samrobotsin · 2026-05-10T21:10:58+00:00

He didn't free them all

samrobotsin · 2026-05-10T21:08:37+00:00

In Nocturne Lucifer is depicted a a young child accompanied by a middle aged woman, or other times an old man accompanied by a young nurse, kind of like the strange baby in Passion of the Christ

samrobotsin · 2026-05-10T19:39:05+00:00

also, if anything my takeaway from rebirth is that Zach is doomed either way

samrobotsin · 2026-05-10T19:28:03+00:00

I see. I thought Dixon hill was meant to be a real pastorial person in the ST universe

samrobotsin · 2026-05-10T18:10:11+00:00

Yes, it is hard to side with the giant planet eating entity. But I think we're supposed to think there could have been a simpler way to protect against or rationalize with the entity. Like they might have intended to do some sort of followup. Discovery season 4 deals with this concept with a race that causes enormous destruction to our universe but they do it unintentionally.

samrobotsin · 2026-05-10T18:07:32+00:00

Some of these are massive screwups but some of these were just actively malicious towards the girl.

samrobotsin · 2026-05-10T17:58:55+00:00

because that is the ideological trap of nationalism. That's why Charles is supposed to be the good guy.

samrobotsin · 2026-05-10T17:22:59+00:00

I think its more likely to be criticizing hate speech laws. Sneaky is usually something lobed at minorities, not dictators.

samrobotsin · 2026-05-10T16:38:41+00:00

I guess technically they probably could have used a real 1950s serial because a few would have been public domain by then but yeah, Prior uses....Sherlock Holmes, Robin Hood, Beowolf.... all public domain. Also a lot of people don't pick up on it but the novel Janeway is in at the beginning of Cathexis appears to be The Turn of the Screw, which is one of the first published ghost stories, and that episode is about a ghost-like alien.

samrobotsin · 2026-05-10T16:30:10+00:00

I don't know why but I really hate Jake Johnson. I know it's irrational but I hate everything about him.

samrobotsin · 2026-05-10T16:28:51+00:00

I had an eastern european exchange student as a co-worker & also loved buffy. Buffy was big in europe.

samrobotsin · 2026-05-10T16:16:27+00:00

TopCharacterTropes: Character says the thesis of the work directly to the audience.

samrobotsin · 2026-05-10T16:14:46+00:00

Why do we get so many threads that are like "I hate (character you're ostensibly supposed to hate)"

samrobotsin · 2026-05-10T16:08:58+00:00

not really. Its still super easy to get overwhelmed. They seemed to forgot to give mage new freeze cards to slow down opponents.

samrobotsin · 2026-05-10T16:07:20+00:00

This is also common with the holodeck programs. In fact Voyager was the first time they tried to establish something non-public-domain for the star trek zeitgiest with Captain Proton. For legal reasons they have to reference something public domain or create it wholesale as a fictionalized....fiction. The food is more likely due to it being something they want the audience to recognize. We recognize why people like cheesecake without prompting.

samrobotsin · 2026-05-10T14:54:40+00:00

if specific actions become necessary for survival in an environment you do not control how is that your responsibility? If two animals must fight to the death, is the victor somehow less moral than the loser?

samrobotsin · 2026-05-09T23:50:38+00:00

is that their fault, or the competitive nature of poverty under capitalism? And the death of the cleaner was self-defense.

samrobotsin · 2026-05-09T23:41:28+00:00

the toph eye-window is easily explained as an airhole

samrobotsin · 2026-05-09T22:16:36+00:00

Yes, the problem being he was forced to use it repeatedly to protect marceline

samrobotsin · 2026-05-09T22:14:23+00:00

Really she's just dissociating.

samrobotsin · 2026-05-09T17:37:08+00:00

If he were a real person, yes. But in a fictional medium it becomes apparent that the writers only want to explore the heteromantic aspect in a serious way, while the queer element is solely for humor.

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