02-11-2017, 02:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-11-2017, 04:39 PM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
It may seem as if Nick's friends follow him without question at the end of an episode, but that's only because he usually spends the first half of every episode asking them all the questions. Most of the time, the decision is either made by all of them together, or all Nick's options are ones they have provided him with and the decision can only be made at the last instant.
But yes, Nick's friends trust him to do the right thing. And he trusts them to point him in the right direction. The scoobie team's role is not to question Nick's choices, but to provide him with the information and options he needs to make the right ones.
If you want to know who the most heroic character is between Nick and Sean, ask yourself which character, given the same information, would be the most likely to make choices based on the interests of others even at a cost to himself and which would make choices based on his own interests at the cost of others'. Would Sean have slammed the door to the tunnel and taken on the BC army alone so nobody would know his friends were down there? Would Nick have stood by and done nothing to interfere when someone was torturing the mother of his child? Or, for that matter, a total stranger?
But yes, Nick's friends trust him to do the right thing. And he trusts them to point him in the right direction. The scoobie team's role is not to question Nick's choices, but to provide him with the information and options he needs to make the right ones.
If you want to know who the most heroic character is between Nick and Sean, ask yourself which character, given the same information, would be the most likely to make choices based on the interests of others even at a cost to himself and which would make choices based on his own interests at the cost of others'. Would Sean have slammed the door to the tunnel and taken on the BC army alone so nobody would know his friends were down there? Would Nick have stood by and done nothing to interfere when someone was torturing the mother of his child? Or, for that matter, a total stranger?