Nice sporking! ^_^ A few months late to the party, but I wanted to share my thoughts on this:
Y'see, when reading the entire "Team Rocket did something good, so we should forgive all their crimes" situation, I was reminded of a German radio drama series I like, called "Dickie Dick Dickens," which is a parody of gangster movies and the "heroic criminal" type of story. It takes place in Chicago in the 1920s and tells the story of the "heroic" gangster Dickie Dick Dickens -- a sort of likable rogue of the Arsene Lupin type, whom the two narrators of the series utterly worship -- not unlike how the people of Cori Falls's stories worship Team Rocket, but in this case it's a satire and supposed to be absurd; a sort of commentary on how people romanticize the "daring criminal." (Besides, in the case of Dickens, it's not so much "his life has been so terrible and everyone else is to blame," but more "he's so brave and clever and daring, swoooon
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Y'see, when reading the entire "Team Rocket did something good, so we should forgive all their crimes" situation, I was reminded of a German radio drama series I like, called "Dickie Dick Dickens," which is a parody of gangster movies and the "heroic criminal" type of story. It takes place in Chicago in the 1920s and tells the story of the "heroic" gangster Dickie Dick Dickens -- a sort of likable rogue of the Arsene Lupin type, whom the two narrators of the series utterly worship -- not unlike how the people of Cori Falls's stories worship Team Rocket, but in this case it's a satire and supposed to be absurd; a sort of commentary on how people romanticize the "daring criminal." (Besides, in the case of Dickens, it's not so much "his life has been so terrible and everyone else is to blame," but more "he's so brave and clever and daring, swoooon ( ... )
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