Man, this episode did Damien no favors.
I love this series, but the last episode with Gordon and Clayface's hand was just too much. Is that supposed to be funny?
Queen of Fables reminded me of Todd from the Office. You have a protagonist who does some messed up stuff, so you introduce a supposedly worse character who really just does the same stuff the Michael and his crew do, only they act really shocked when Todd does basically the same stuff. I like this show and the office but I never liked that trope. It seem like a very manipulative and disengenuous way to make the protagonist seem more sympathetic that they are. Pretty sure Harley, Psycho, King Shark and the plant guy in the apartment killed their share of innocents. And like, that’s fine, they’re villains. But why is the Queen of Fables so much worse than them?
Yeah, I don't like it when they try to pretend Harley ISN'T a real bad guy. I mean, from the show so far it looks to me like she's killed plenty of people. And doesn't Joker constantly kill innocent people? So her "i don't kill innocent people" thing seems like bullshit. That's what villains do.
And one of the reasons I was liking the show is because it didn't seem to me like it was pretending that Harley isn't a real villain (she IS and I hate it when people try to turn her into some kind of antihero or something). She can't be the Joker's girlfriend and not also be a murderer.
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She reminds me of mafia types, who think of themselves as good guys because they only kill people who are either "in the life" or who "know the score". Which is to say other mobsters, people who borrow from loansharks and don't pay up, and people who are generally at least tangentially part of mafia corruption. It's a load of B.S. of course, since the people who are more tangentially part of mafia corruption have often been intimidated into being so. And while they may try to just hold up security guards rather than killing them, it's not like they won't kill them if things go south.
That said, I can see why she would consider herself morally superior to blatant serial-killers. She'd be wrong, but I do understand the mindset.