I'm not in Sherlock fandom, but yeah, this tendency in general bugs me. It's one thing to talk meta about characters you like, why they do what they do, etc. It's a different thing to act like the bad things they do are really fine.
I guess I've never had a problem with characters not being great people. I grew up with a lot of morally ambiguous characters, thanks to my dad letting me watch action movies.
Word. I tend to enjoy morally grey (or downright evil) characters, but generally because they're like that. Trying to make them into flawlesse heroes gets old real quick. Sadly this tends to happen in the actual shows as well, either by turning a villian good (or start throwing his man-pain at you till you feel sorry for him, hi there Spike) or repeatedly justifying the morally grey hero's downright despicable acts until you want to puch everyone onscreen in the face (mostly why I stopped watching 24 and Smallville. Well, that and because the shows turned horrible, but mostly that).
He (or her) did it for the evil!lulz. Why can't we have that? Or out of pure pragmatism. But please don't try to sell me that a supposedly highly intelligent character doesn't understand the concept of harm or insult.
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I guess I've never had a problem with characters not being great people. I grew up with a lot of morally ambiguous characters, thanks to my dad letting me watch action movies.
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He (or her) did it for the evil!lulz. Why can't we have that? Or out of pure pragmatism. But please don't try to sell me that a supposedly highly intelligent character doesn't understand the concept of harm or insult.
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