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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3897943" data-attributes="member: 20741">I don't think that Parkman is going to the dark side. I think he is a normal man - with normal feelings, normal faults and an essential humanity.  That average schlubb has been given a power of mind control that Internet fan-fiction suggests is the singular fuel for fantasy and abuse.How would you fare with such a power?When Parkman decides to know Elle and Claire  a whole lot better - at the same time - you might place him in the darkside camp.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> For now, the identity of a woman in a photo, the forced identification of a serial murderer and a command to just be a normal kid and eat your cereal is not yet a path to the darkside. And telling a boss to let you pursue a murder case which is most definitely not closed so you can, in fact, do the job you were hired to do is not THAT morally gray."These aren't the droids you are looking for" != "Discussing the location of the secret rebel base"Placed on a spectrum, is eating cereal and compelling someone to reveal a name more like "not the droids" or "revealing the location of the secret rebel base"? (Does your answer change if you substitute waterboarding for telepathy? Or a levitating black probe with a cruel needle sticking out of it? Possibly it does.)Right now he's trying to save a woman's life. A violation of another human being? Yes. Justifiable? Perhaps (and perhaps not).It may be that Parkman will  - in the end - wind up in a darker place - but let's face it: none of the Heroes, save for Peter, Sylar, and Hiro have had such a temptation for corruption laid at their feet.  Sylar is a psychopath whose movement to the dark side made black, blacker. Peter on the other hand, is too utterly vapid to understand the bigger implications of what he is or what he can do. Pointing fingers at Peter is like faulting a six year old for having a poorly developed moral compass. As for Hiro  - he failed his first test along the road to Paladinhood too. And several others after that, it seems.</blockquote>

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