Oh, I just completely disagree with this on so many levels... what does moral center mean anyway? That there's only one right way to act? That's so absolutist I get depressed just typing it. I am AMAZED people think this about XFiles because I just wrote an entry last week about how I liked that it was a text based on multiple voices - here.
Ooh! Shall read that, thanks for the link! But yes, exactly--the idea that there is only one way to act, particularly in universes as murky as XF or HP is just ridiculous. Almost any severe code is going to eventually turn on you. And really, who could possibly like a character who was just always right? It's like insulting to the character who's supposed to be the moral center and all the characters who aren't at the same time.
Yes! The lack of compassion not just some HP characters show but the fandom as well is very peculiar to me.
Doesn't it? I guess it's part of that judgmental swing from one end to the other: this character's good! This character's bad! They just are what they are.
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Date: 2004-04-30 02:15 pm (UTC)Ooh! Shall read that, thanks for the link! But yes, exactly--the idea that there is only one way to act, particularly in universes as murky as XF or HP is just ridiculous. Almost any severe code is going to eventually turn on you. And really, who could possibly like a character who was just always right? It's like insulting to the character who's supposed to be the moral center and all the characters who aren't at the same time.
Yes! The lack of compassion not just some HP characters show but the fandom as well is very peculiar to me.
Doesn't it? I guess it's part of that judgmental swing from one end to the other: this character's good! This character's bad! They just are what they are.