Chewy, first of all, I want to make clear that I am not questioning your character, his motivations and actions. There is no need to say that doubtless Walker is a great character, exceptionally developed, with clear motivations driving him. Walker is a greater character than the Walrus, just like this Tweed is better than the old Tweed, Reynolds than Gummy Worm, Curie than Radius, Vidalia than Hybrid Onion. Real characters for sure.
But still, keeping Eddie captive can't be issued as something that a law enforcing agency could rightfully do. They are baddies. Lovely and well written baddies, but still baddies.
Pro has said that the MBL consider him bad because they don’t know his true motivations.
Well, I think they would consider him bad even knowing that. Walker HATES metahumans. So far, his goal seems (SEEMS) to solve the problems of the potential danger of rampaging metas eradicating them from the planet (at last, the research around the Pathogen, some things he has said in the past seems to go in that direction, I can be not right). If that’s the case, it’s genocide, and that’s, for our society, is bad. It’s evil.
As opposed, Kristogar’s idea of organized metahumans as a police force to held in check the dangerous metas, is acceptable for our society standards. Sure, then there will be a “Who watch the Watchmen” problem, yet democracy should (SHOULD) have the means to solve it.
That’s why I still see the EPS as baddie.
Obviously during the Revolution it could seems that they have been the good boys saving the city from the villains. Yet, as Chewy has shown, in a great way as always, Tweed has not lift a finger to help the good, hiding metas from the FBI. That makes him bad, or at last coward. It makes him also human, I know, but heroes usually are the ones that do something different from normal humans.
As I Christian myself, I think that every human has the choice of being bad or good, and that are his actions to bring him to damnation or salvation. With Euro, I am trying to bring in my (nick)namesake character the passion I was able to put in the old Universe Cap. Nemo. Until now, with his motivations, ingenuity, boy-scout morality he has caused much more deaths than the whole EPS (having a city like Chicago on his conscience could be seen as the counterpart of I-Man and the antimatter uniboard of the old multiverse), yet I hope he will learn from his mistakes and will put to fruition this hard lesson.
I hope to see comments from everyone, not only from Chewy and Gooz (which are always appreciated, though).
[ 06-15-2002, 11:03 AM: Message edited by: The Eurostar ]
