Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160411010044/@comment-25375217-20160411191405

Eskaver wrote: So, many people have responded and it's seems to be a decent, solid episode. But what was the lesson? Was it really "Bad things happen if you do the right thing, bad things!"?

What was your take on the moral of the episode? TBJ has a questionable moral as well although being about self-forgiveness, neglected the obvious note that it's still right to ask for forgivenesss from others. Does this episode skew the morality presented by the series? Will the show stop using black and white terms in their attempted grey morality scale? No, I don't think the moral was that bad things will happen when you do the right thing. Rather, it was that the right thing doesn't always turn out the way you hope it will. That's a really true moral, too - sometimes you can do something amazingly nice and it goes horribly wrong. Does that mean that it was the wrong thing to do? No. But it happens a lot. It didn't change Belle's character to be "why should I do the right thing if it goes so poorly? I'mma be dark now" so I don't see a problem with letting her not make everyone happy with her attempts of goodness just for once.