On Heroes and Villains
This blog is in response to a blog written by my brother concerning heroes and villains:
http://ymb2006.blogspot.com/2007/07/15th-post.html
It’s true: typically heroes are less interesting characters than villains. However, occasionally you’ll get an interesting hero…like…imagine if you switched out Will Turner for Medea. (This is, of course, assuming you take her to be the tragic heroine of her story.) She would kill everyone in the blasted Carribean to get back at Elizabeth for kissing Jack…quite a different story (particularly considering the gender swap…). Or if Oedipus took Luke’s place? He’d marry Queen Amidala and off Vader before he could even say that famous line about his genealogy. Ultimately it’d be up to R2D2 to show a hologram explaining the whole situation where he would probably take a light saber to his eyes and banish himself to a cave next door to Yoda. Just imagine if rather than his twin, Leah were the child he conceived with his mother? That makes the kiss on the cheek that much more disgusting.
