03-18-2017, 09:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-19-2017, 05:40 AM by Hexenadler.)
(03-18-2017, 08:37 AM)Robyn Wrote: It's splitting hairs based on what affects the viewer on a personal level. You're struck by Juliette's choices which led to Kelly's death and near death of Hank. I'm struck by their willingness to kidnap a child because a Grimm wants her for her powers and to protect themselves from an enemy.
For you, Kelly's death is practically unforgivable. For me, Kelly's death was the result of her own actions/decisions. The consequences are unbalanced from either point of view - Kelly's dead and Juliette's a Hexenbiest while everyone else moved on with their lives. But life isn't fair, even in fiction.
This is the kind of B.S. moral relativism that's helped to turn contemporary television into a quagmire of reprehensible characters and situations.
Yes, Robyn. Kidnapping a baby is inexcusable. But using that to play down/minimize what Juliette did is a straw man argument. (And come on, Robyn, even you have to admit what she did was motivated by pure malice. Diana's kidnapping, although dubious, had more than malice at work behind it.)
Sure, life is often unfair, but it's our instinct to CORRECT that unfairness which separates us from the assholes. If we just shrug our shoulders and say "that's life," we're no better than the New Yorkers who allowed Kitty Genovese to be murdered. Fiction has as much a responsibility to acknowledge our yearning for justice, as to deny it. "Life isn't fair" should never be used as an excuse for apathy.