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Re: Character discussion: Will SchuesterchirpingemuFebruary 11 2012, 16:03:21 UTC
For me, this raises the question of intention and self-knowledge. Will is meant, I think, to be a good but flawed person, but his flaws stem from cluelessness, so in a way it's hard to say whether he is a good person or not. He does what he thinks is right, he tries to make up for it when he does something that he perceives is wrong, but he still ends up doing a lot of things that are wrong. For me, the biggest one is rejecting Becky when she asked to join--he could have found something for her to do in order to belong.
So it really throws me when Sue, who is usually the delighted speaker of unpleasant truths, seems him as a thoroughly good person instead of a well-intentioned person who has some huge blind spots.
If I were blind in one eye but that eye had 20/20 vision, you still wouldn't say that I had perfect sight.
Almost all of the other characters who are seen as well-intentioned but flawed are more or less aware of their flaws. Even Kurt, whether you perceive that he mostly matured out of his flaws or was suddenly canonized by the writers into St. Kurt, was aware of his. In a way, the closest one to Will seems to be Brittany, who almost seems as clueless when she did mean things as much as she does when she's doing very kind things, though for her, the emphasis seems to have turned much more towards he doing kind things.
So it really throws me when Sue, who is usually the delighted speaker of unpleasant truths, seems him as a thoroughly good person instead of a well-intentioned person who has some huge blind spots.
If I were blind in one eye but that eye had 20/20 vision, you still wouldn't say that I had perfect sight.
Almost all of the other characters who are seen as well-intentioned but flawed are more or less aware of their flaws. Even Kurt, whether you perceive that he mostly matured out of his flaws or was suddenly canonized by the writers into St. Kurt, was aware of his. In a way, the closest one to Will seems to be Brittany, who almost seems as clueless when she did mean things as much as she does when she's doing very kind things, though for her, the emphasis seems to have turned much more towards he doing kind things.
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