Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 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.

Barbosa acts all serious and menacing.  Sparrow is the unlucky and coward
bastard who somehow got hold of a ship, crew and a reputation as a pirate
legend.  He's fun and we sympathise with him, not with Barbosa (or Davy Jones
for that matter). :)

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