Well, thank you. It seems our postings crossed; I saw yours just when I posted mine and thought, "god, I wish I'd said that!" - wishing I'd managed to tease out the threads as thoroughly as you did.
I agree with you that the hero need not be boring or thankless, and am completely in sympathy with what you say, i.e., "there is so much honest and worthwhile disagreement about what is the right thing to do or the best way to act in any given situation that any character, "conventional" or not, will come across as ambiguous," but I think the writers and JB, too, struggled with the idea that Lee, the hero, wasn't or wouldn't remain sufficiently interesting. Whereas I became quite attached to him...
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Date: 2010-07-10 06:55 pm (UTC)I agree with you that the hero need not be boring or thankless, and am completely in sympathy with what you say, i.e., "there is so much honest and worthwhile disagreement about what is the right thing to do or the best way to act in any given situation that any character, "conventional" or not, will come across as ambiguous," but I think the writers and JB, too, struggled with the idea that Lee, the hero, wasn't or wouldn't remain sufficiently interesting. Whereas I became quite attached to him...