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Weekend Confirmed 146 - 2013 begins, Dishonored, next-gen predictions
by Jeff Mattas, Jan 04, 2013 11:00am PSTWeekend Confirmed is back for the firs episode of 2013! Garnett Lee, Jeff Cannata, and "Indie" Jeff Mattas are joined by Nikole Zivalich this week to talk about games like Dishonored and the brilliant new indie title, Hundreds. Much of this episode's discussion centers around predictions for the future of gaming, including possible next-steps for gaming hardware and peripherals, as well as what sort of changes might help reinvigorate the MMO genre in the coming years. Finishing Moves wraps up the show, followed by a WildCard edition of the post-show NFL TailGate.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 146: 1/4/2013
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You know we've had this conversation before. Likable and evil are not dissonant concepts. You have characters who you like despite their evil nature. But then you don't have good guys that you like despite their being really fucking annoying. That's why Dawn is fucking horrible.
By "demon incarnate" I just mean he's a vampire. And no, he was never riding the line between good and evil. Yes he was likable, but he was likable as a sadistic anarchist. There's a difference between a good villain who has shades of complexity, and the dark horse archetype who treads a morally ambiguous ground.
Season 2 establishes Spike as the former. To take him on this journey to lovey dovey conformist betrays his dramatic roll in the series. Its not just unappealing, it comes off as inauthentic.
"Eh, it was clear from the onset of season 4 that Spike's popularity with fans (particularly the female variety) was earning him a larger, and more sympathetic role on the show. I didn't actually find the relationship that random. "
So basically you're defending his relationship on the same grounds that someone would defend the talking monkey, diarrhea, muscular shoulder Meryle in a wedding dress ending to Metal Gear Solid 4. Its basically fan fiction.
" I think you're overstating just how much the majority of the Scooby Squad put aside their dislike and distrust for him, they expressed it in pretty much every interaction."
Uh but Giles and Angel disappear from the series. Willow becomes a crazy witch in Season 6, and then you just have Dawn. ..Oh Dawn. Cordelia was thrown into Angel. Referring to their skepticism towards Spike only emphasizes the other systematic problems the series ran into. The series needed less emo drama, and more conventional "Scooby Gang" banter.
" the Mayor upsets the traditional model of the badguy. Instead of some big, mean looking tough guy that shouts threats, he's a smiling, cheerful, guy hiding a core of evil."
That doesn't upset the model of the traditional bad guy. It puts him in line with every campy super villain who's ever existed. That's why he only works as an episodic character. There are loads of ways Faith could have betrayed the forces of good etc.
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