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bktheirregular) wrote2003-02-02 07:25 pm
bktheirregular) wrote2003-02-02 07:25 pm
Musing on antiheroes
I got to watch "Paradise Lost", the latest Stargate: SG-1 eposide, and ...
Well, I don't know how people do that neat thing on livejournal where they put their spoilery musings on a link, so I'll have to be circumspect.
But for some weird, twisted reason, I find myself liking Harry Maybourne. You know, in that keep-your-hand-on-your-wallet-and-your-back-to-the-wall sense. Okay, he's an amoral opportunist who'd sell you out in a heartbeat if it served his interest, but in a broad sense - you know, about as broad as the Titanic stem-to-stern - he could be considered ... well, if not one of the good guys, then certainly not one of the bad guys.
I mean, he's no worse than Jayne Cobb, and he rates waaaay higher on the scale of the righteous than Classic Spike. OK, both those guys have object-of-lust things going for them, apparently, which is something I can't get a read on (like asking me to see in the infrared or read a passage out of the Koran in Arabic script; I just can't manage it), but Harry ... okay, you always had to ask what his angle was, but what threw that off was that sometimes he wouldn't have an angle. Sometimes - maybe more often than you'd like to think about - he'd be doing something just because it was the Right Thing to Do.
Rather inconvenient when your villains show a tendency to do right on general principles.
And when he went rogue, he also developed a nice sense of whimsy. Not malicious like old Angelus, but carpe diem, I suppose.
If this isn't making any sense, I apologize. My emergency backup brain cell is in the shop.
And I can't figure out why hearing the music to "The Rockford Files" reminds me of Harry Maybourne.
Hm.
Close entry.
Well, I don't know how people do that neat thing on livejournal where they put their spoilery musings on a link, so I'll have to be circumspect.
But for some weird, twisted reason, I find myself liking Harry Maybourne. You know, in that keep-your-hand-on-your-wallet-and-your-back-to-the-wall sense. Okay, he's an amoral opportunist who'd sell you out in a heartbeat if it served his interest, but in a broad sense - you know, about as broad as the Titanic stem-to-stern - he could be considered ... well, if not one of the good guys, then certainly not one of the bad guys.
I mean, he's no worse than Jayne Cobb, and he rates waaaay higher on the scale of the righteous than Classic Spike. OK, both those guys have object-of-lust things going for them, apparently, which is something I can't get a read on (like asking me to see in the infrared or read a passage out of the Koran in Arabic script; I just can't manage it), but Harry ... okay, you always had to ask what his angle was, but what threw that off was that sometimes he wouldn't have an angle. Sometimes - maybe more often than you'd like to think about - he'd be doing something just because it was the Right Thing to Do.
Rather inconvenient when your villains show a tendency to do right on general principles.
And when he went rogue, he also developed a nice sense of whimsy. Not malicious like old Angelus, but carpe diem, I suppose.
If this isn't making any sense, I apologize. My emergency backup brain cell is in the shop.
And I can't figure out why hearing the music to "The Rockford Files" reminds me of Harry Maybourne.
Hm.
Close entry.