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Confusing likability with goodness Beqi Send a noteboard - 18/03/2010 08:59:40 PM
I think that may be the issue. Arya and Robert are likable. And we want the people we like, who seem good, to be good. There are villains like Jaime who are evil and we like him anyway, though more people are trying to make him good now that he is more likable. Cersei and Theon, in my opinion, were never likable so it is easy to put them in the evil category and leave them there. Robert was kind of a weenie evil guy.
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ASoI&F Quickpoll: Evil characters Cannoli - 18/03/2010 02:04:24 PM 1377 Views
Re: ASoI&F Quickpoll: Evil characters lyringlas - 18/03/2010 02:32:48 PM 831 Views
Re: ASoI&F Quickpoll: Evil characters Macharius - 18/03/2010 06:34:29 PM 776 Views
Exactly. Werthead - 18/03/2010 09:07:56 PM 838 Views
I have never heard anyone defend Cersei. Tom - 18/03/2010 07:04:33 PM 840 Views
Confusing likability with goodness Beqi - 18/03/2010 08:59:40 PM 835 Views
Arya may not be "good"... ironclad - 18/03/2010 09:15:46 PM 883 Views
Do you think a child can be evil? *NM* Beqi - 18/03/2010 09:18:06 PM 354 Views
We sometimes hear about kids doing horrible things ironclad - 18/03/2010 09:41:30 PM 715 Views
Is that because they may not understand the consequences of their actions? Beqi - 18/03/2010 09:45:33 PM 790 Views
Most likely, yes. Plus their reasons for doing bad things lack deeper inferior motives. ironclad - 18/03/2010 10:09:25 PM 820 Views
Arya is old enough to understand cause and effect... Napoleon62 - 18/03/2010 11:04:31 PM 919 Views
Soldiers do the same thing. LadyLorraine - 19/03/2010 03:23:35 AM 749 Views
Just what I was about to say, yeah *NM* ironclad - 19/03/2010 07:55:47 AM 323 Views
Soldiers kill for the sake of their country, their cause, or their hope... Napoleon62 - 19/03/2010 11:24:16 PM 1141 Views
Re: Soldiers kill for the sake of their country, their cause, or their hope... LadyLorraine - 20/03/2010 12:29:55 AM 773 Views
Arya is not a soldier. Soldiers are not individually responsible for the results of war. Cannoli - 20/03/2010 11:22:43 PM 927 Views
Arya is legitimately the most evil... Napoleon62 - 18/03/2010 09:45:04 PM 1100 Views
No, she's not A Deathwatch Guard - 18/03/2010 11:45:23 PM 771 Views
Cersei doesn't have true justification Napoleon62 - 18/03/2010 11:47:44 PM 894 Views
what makes ambition better? LadyLorraine - 19/03/2010 03:30:04 AM 741 Views
*nods* ironclad - 19/03/2010 07:58:31 AM 862 Views
what he said! especially about Cersei being seriously mentally ill *NM* imlad - 19/03/2010 04:38:19 AM 293 Views
Re: Arya is legitimately the most evil... Cannoli - 19/03/2010 10:50:56 PM 759 Views
I was looking forward to his response as well. LadyLorraine - 19/03/2010 11:13:35 PM 869 Views
Nope Cannoli - 20/03/2010 10:23:19 PM 926 Views
to be accurate, the child was not yet disabled when he was pushed from the tower imlad - 20/03/2010 10:52:42 PM 874 Views
ah, thank you. it's been a while since I read that bit *NM* LadyLorraine - 21/03/2010 02:58:10 AM 309 Views
Evil is such a limiting term to use. Werthead - 20/03/2010 12:18:24 PM 733 Views
Try reading the books Cannoli - 20/03/2010 10:50:01 PM 941 Views
just out of curiousity LadyLorraine - 21/03/2010 03:01:02 AM 827 Views
Sort of. Cannoli - 22/03/2010 11:37:04 PM 735 Views
I've read them a few times. Werthead - 21/03/2010 01:47:52 PM 827 Views
Just a "few" times? fionwe1987 - 21/03/2010 06:07:14 PM 878 Views
Only three times. Werthead - 21/03/2010 11:20:12 PM 783 Views
Who is Jon Connington? Napoleon62 - 22/03/2010 01:30:44 AM 921 Views
Jon Connington- Hand to Aerys. Lost to Hoster, Eddard and Robert. Exiled. *NM* fionwe1987 - 22/03/2010 04:09:59 AM 370 Views
people seem to be forgetting imlad - 21/03/2010 09:11:04 PM 891 Views
Some of that is BS... fionwe1987 - 22/03/2010 04:18:06 AM 810 Views
Thank you. Cannoli - 23/03/2010 01:59:38 AM 816 Views
*NM* fionwe1987 - 23/03/2010 03:58:24 AM 275 Views
ROFLMAO. Most people complain that my values are medieval & out of touch with the modern world! Cannoli - 23/03/2010 01:54:58 AM 1157 Views
It really shocks that I'm going to say this. LadyLorraine - 23/03/2010 03:23:28 AM 744 Views
To clarify, "evil" means VERY, VERY BAD. Cannoli - 23/03/2010 01:12:39 AM 988 Views
your problem is you seem equate legality with morality imlad - 24/03/2010 04:07:42 AM 732 Views
I was responding to someone ELSE making that error Cannoli - 24/03/2010 03:13:36 PM 1012 Views
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