Remember the "rapist’ in Friday that she eventually ‘shacks up’ (Thanks Dr. Laura) with was a double agent…who basically had to participate to keep from blowing his cover and he was also an artificial person…(IE: Genetically enhanced person made in a lab). And finally left that life to be with Friday and join her ‘family’.
It always reminded me more of Ambrose Bierce’s “The Affair at Coulter’s Notch”, from 1891’s Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: some event requires that protagonists take certain actions, with horrible consequences that they* are far too readily aware of but from which they can’t see a means of escaping.
[*] The crew, in the case of Cold Equations, Captain Coulter in Bierce’s story.
The fact that the scenario in “The Cold Equations” is riddled with loopholes (and the impossibility of devising a coherent scenario without such loopholes) might have metaphysical implications. The story is based on the premise that reality does not care about us. Maybe, in some sense, it does.
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At least the destruction of Alderaan had a tactical purpose: it was meant to intimidate the Empire’s enemies into submission to ensure a peaceful (evil & totalitarian) reign.
Nero, on the other hand, didn’t have any apparent goal beyond being a huge dick. He obviously didn’t care about helping the Romulan Empire or he would have just headed back to Romulus to share his fancy futuristic technology with his people, maybe just use some of that black hole-juice to stop the supernova which was destined to destroy his planet.
Well… “Rewenge!”. A thin motivation. One reason that bad guy was so very boring. They didn’t spend hours setting it up like with Khan, where it was awesome. Plus good actors are good.
Right, and Khan was getting revenge on someone he had a legitimate beef with. Nero was getting “revenge” on a bunch of people he had never met, including people who were long dead before he was ever born and the Vulcan who had risked his life trying to save Romulus.
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