The it is more realistic approach is something I've heard all too common when someone does something out of character being justified.
And how can the Disney trilogy not grimdark? Han and Leila are failed parents, Luke is a failed Jedi master, Han dies, the Emperor lives, every achievements your heroes earned are gone. Maybe I should clarify that I am referring to the Disney Star Wars trilogy.
Also I am not Billy D. If I were Billy, I wouldn't sold my website to someone else and disappeared without a trace.
Because Han and Leia don't do things like massacring and enslaving, raping and torturing, sacrificing people (and children). Maybe also because their world is made up and thus can't be historically accurate, but first of all because Disney shit is for kids.
Sacrificing is what Merlin does (and Nimue, and Morgan before she converts to Christianity). He's also insane. And well meaning, even if his (unattainable) goal means killing most everyone everywhere for the return of his gods. Like many other doomsday cultists throughout history and today too. (There are Christian fanatics in the story too.)
It's also kinda ironic because Merlin is a sort of fake druid like all his rivals during this time, since the real druids have been killed off by the Romans very long ago, so he's hunting for Roman documents about what the druids were like, and it's possible that the whole "them druids were sacrificing them kids" shit was a Roman slander. (As if the Romans haven't been ridicalously brutal and bloodthirsty themselves.)
The it is more realistic approach is something I've heard all too common when someone does something out of character being justified.
And how can the Disney trilogy not grimdark? Han and Leila are failed parents, Luke is a failed Jedi master, Han dies, the Emperor lives, every achievements your heroes earned are gone. Maybe I should clarify that I am referring to the Disney Star Wars trilogy.
Also I am not Billy D. If I were Billy, I wouldn't sold my website to someone else and disappeared without a trace.
Because Han and Leia don't do things like massacring and enslaving, raping and torturing, sacrificing people (and children). Maybe also because their world is made up and thus can't be historically accurate, but first of all because Disney shit is for kids.
Sacrificing is what Merlin does (and Nimue, and Morgan before she converts to Christianity). He's also insane. And well meaning, even if his (unattainable) goal means killing most everyone everywhere for the return of his gods. Like many other doomsday cultists throughout history and today too. (There are Christian fanatics in the story too.)
It's also kinda ironic because Merlin is a sort of fake druid like all his rivals during this time, since the real druids have been killed off by the Romans very long ago, so he's hunting for Roman documents about what the druids were like, and it's possible that the whole "them druids were sacrificing them kids" shit was a Roman slander. (As if the Romans haven't been ridicalously brutal and bloodthirsty themselves.)