On 25/07/2012 07:55 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 7/25/2012 0:57, Invisible wrote:
>> Sure. But you can't just take somebody with no redeeming qualities and
>> say "he's the hero".
>
> You can if his redeeming trait is that he's fighting against the even
> more awful "legitimate" characters. Han Solo is a smuggler, a pirate, a
> card cheat, etc. But since he's giving the finger to Darth Vadar, we
> like him anyway.

Perhaps. But I'm not sure that's all.

For example, both Captain Sparrow and Captain Barbosa are pirates. They 
both lie, cheat, steal, and generally look out only for themselves. And 
yet, somehow Sparrow is the hero, and Barbosa isn't.

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