See, I feel like an agrarian people would think that a leader who wanted to take away their animals is, no matter what else he does, not a good and just leader. He's trying to destroy their livelihood.
I do wish she would have left Tardis alive. I also agree with her that one of her moral messages is "Once you look past the dogma etc.," but I think she oversimplifies; if that was all that was necessary, and looking past the dogma was as easy as the good characters who throw off all their anti-Misfit prejudice at the drop of a hat implies, the world wouldn't have nearly as many problems as it does.
I realize the idealism has been there from the start, but it's gotten much more prevalent in the later books. In the first three two it was there mostly by implication; in the third the characters started having ethical discussions; and in the fourth and fifth the discussions were replaced by ethical lectures, which I found significantly less engaging.
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Date: 2009-05-19 03:53 am (UTC)I do wish she would have left Tardis alive. I also agree with her that one of her moral messages is "Once you look past the dogma etc.," but I think she oversimplifies; if that was all that was necessary, and looking past the dogma was as easy as the good characters who throw off all their anti-Misfit prejudice at the drop of a hat implies, the world wouldn't have nearly as many problems as it does.
I realize the idealism has been there from the start, but it's gotten much more prevalent in the later books. In the first three two it was there mostly by implication; in the third the characters started having ethical discussions; and in the fourth and fifth the discussions were replaced by ethical lectures, which I found significantly less engaging.