BookBarbarian
Expert Long Rester
Doesn't matter what alignment Sean Bean is playing, his character will still be dead before the second episode so there's no need to fret over it.
Except Richard Sharpe. 15 years playing the role. Never Died.
Doesn't matter what alignment Sean Bean is playing, his character will still be dead before the second episode so there's no need to fret over it.
Read between the lines. Sharpe is obviously in Purgatory.Except Richard Sharpe. 15 years playing the role. Never Died.
Yes, I will happily grant that it's somewhat narratively "lazy" to simply retrace the well-trodden paths. That doesn't make it racist, either knowingly or sub-consciously.
However, the Good vs. Evil trope appeals, in a very Jungian way, to us humans, and so it's a useful narrative mechanism. Is it wrong to propagate the misconception? I dunno. Maybe.
Which conflicts with much of that analysis of the Lord of the Rings, which ignores the problems of having the people who look like us be good and the people with bad teeth and green skin be evil.
There's generalities, and there's specifics.D&D is a world where, at least traditionally, a number of characters have had the ability to check for evil supernaturally, to find an evil halfling or a not-evil orc. Always evil orcs is not necessary for Good vs. Evil. Even if you prefer to keep races tightly tied to alignments, a more diverse set of good races makes it clear it's about Good vs. Evil, not humans and demi-humans against things that don't look like us.
I think, sir, that you might be looking for a problem where isn't one.
There's generalities, and there's specifics.
But why are there very few if any Good Orcs? Because the Evil ones killed 'em off and ate 'em.
And there's a second question: are we killing these things because they don't look like us, or because they're trying to eat us?
And I think you're ignoring a problem where it's been well established there is one. Is everything open for discussion except for anything that might make you slightly uncomfortable? I think history makes it quite clear that arguing against existing problems is an important step in causing social and legal changes.
And arguing about things on the internet is absolutely the way to solve it. *shrugs*