Lots of people saw Canadian guy & girl, and instead of saying "Wow, these are awful people trying to be less awful" they instead said "Wow, these people are so inspirational and rebellious, I should be just like them!"
It didn't help that the book & movie never really gave them lasting consequences for their horrible behavior (Canadian guy gets a deus ex machina in the movie).
personally, I feel like any who takes inspiration on fictional character should be locked into insane asylum...wonder why ppl cant take entertainment as entertainment without seeing some hidden messages and rolemodels in em:D (terrible writing is terrible though, judge entertainment as entertainment)
Lots of people saw Canadian guy & girl, and instead of saying "Wow, these are awful people trying to be less awful" they instead said "Wow, these people are so inspirational and rebellious, I should be just like them!"
It didn't help that the book & movie never really gave them lasting consequences for their horrible behavior (Canadian guy gets a deus ex machina in the movie).
personally, I feel like any who takes inspiration on fictional character should be locked into insane asylum...wonder why ppl cant take entertainment as entertainment without seeing some hidden messages and rolemodels in em:D (terrible writing is terrible though, judge entertainment as entertainment)
MANY of Western Civ's hero's are fictional like Hercules and almost everyone in the Odyssey and Trojan war.