(02-10-2017, 05:49 AM)jsgrimm45 Wrote: Now again IMO only real life can make a hero, in real life there are very very few real anti heros. A police officer or fireman who saves someone hero, a soldier on a battlefield is a hero just by being there. Being a hero doesn't make the man a good or bad man or woman just their actions at the time makes them a hero.
At one point I read:
It is fortune or chance chiefly that makes heroes.
As an adolescent I always puzzled over that statement. Weren't heroes made or born? But as I aged (and aged I have) I see the truth in those words.
(02-10-2017, 05:38 AM)speakeasy Wrote: Grimm is a show that metaphorically portrays the problems that occur in a real society when folks are living in a period of historical transition, such as is the case in America. We have concentrated on constitutionally guaranteeing the civil rights of all minorities in recent years. Most Americans are members of some or other minority group today. I'm heartened to see this. But it's created a terrible divide in the country (HW vs BC in Grimm) which is the painful result of the rebirth of the concept of equality, imo. This is sad, but I believe art imitates life on Grimm.
If I lost most posters so far, this opinion holds no water.
Your observation is spot on, I am not sure I agree with the overall tenor of the sentiment, but, the observation reflects reality.
(02-10-2017, 05:38 AM)speakeasy Wrote: But I'll finish anyway. Languages are living things; a descriptive meaning of a particular word evolves, or at least changes as times passes, to suit the times. If that premise is accepted as valid, then what describes a hero must change. In my view, Nick is indeed a contemporary hero. That he's heroic is one of the few consistencies the show has kept to over the years.
I must say I find your comments refreshing. As in elevating the conversation.
I'll just say, continuing on a general theme of mine, that I believe that the idea that Nick is a hero in today's culture is rather a barometer by which we can measure the degradation of this nation's once great endemic culture.
Thanks for your commentary.
Oxford commas are so totally rad!.