Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-108.52.15.234-20130218020956/@comment-6195464-20130219142013

Utter solitude wrote:

101.168.85.58 wrote: Putting aside the fact that I'm still pretty annoyed they went with Neal as Bae (it's just too neat, and also, the Bae who was brave enough to challenge and leave his father doesn't metamorphose easily into a petty thief, to my mind) '''Who said it was easy? It's definitely something that took his entire life... and that's centuries, according to Nealfire's words in the CTV promo. Resentment and abandonment can have a very profond effect on even the best people. His father literally let him go; into a new world, alone. That's some messed up stuff, so of course the effects are profound, and it fits nicely into the "redemption" theme.''' Not to mention there's nothing remotely petty about what Neal did. He stole to survive... out of necessity, not because he could. He was alone and abandoned in a world he didn't fully understand and the only way to survive was to take what he needed.