ext_1620 ([identity profile] fable.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] lesbiassparrow 2009-07-26 02:00 pm (UTC)

2. Captain Jack's decision to use his grandson as the conduit, knowing he would kill him. This is just the choice of the higher ups on a smaller scale. And you can say 'well, it's one child for millions' but it's still the same choice and it's made for someone else. Jack sacrifices something he has no right to, knowing it's wrong and knowing he is partially responsible for it all in the first place. I should say here that I've always hated the 'greater good' argument, because in the end it's never really about the greater good, is it? It's about your good. Or that of people like you. And if people can't make an honest choice about whether they want to die for the greater good then it's not such a 'good' is it?

I agree with this SO MUCH. Also, another scene that I thought was absolutely brilliant was when Frobisher's secretary went to the prison and was talking to Lois about Frobisher, about how he was such a good man and a hard worker and etc.

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