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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 1702892" data-attributes="member: 4720">You keep accusing me of not reading the Covenant books (well, I read portions of the first one, and nothing beyond that, which I readily admit to), but have you even seen Godfather II?  If you think all they were doing was protecting their money, you completely missed the point (wow, that would have been fun were I less petty... well, it was a little fun).  Yes, it eventually degenerated to something close to that, but the slippery slope and Michael's attempts to get off of it is one of the things that makes the movies interesting.  A shallow analysis of the first movie could come away with the impression you're suggesting.  The second one blows it apart.As for Superman, Frodo, etc. being given Great Power (or a unique resistance to Great Power) IS a responsibility.  Both are uniquely suited to their tasks, much like Covenant is to his.  There's an implicit responsibility there.  Given your logic, if someone got AIDS from a blood transfusion, it's not his fault and he didn't ask for it, so there's nothing wrong with him having unprotected sex with a different person every night.  After all, he didn't ASK to be given the ability to inject a death sentence into every person he sleeps with, so what he does with it is immaterial.Perhaps I didn't read enough of them to "get the point" and perhaps it was so long ago and I was so turned off by the incident that I don't have a clear memory of what I did read, but the fact remains that I am allowed to dislike a rapist, regardless of his handicaps and regardless of whether you like him.  And I am allowed to dislike a book centered on such a character, even if it is a slightly different take on the whole prophesied messiah angle, and even if you like it.Next you're going to tell me that I suxxor because I have a GameCube and your X-box pwnz it.</blockquote>

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