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CTrent wrote:

Eskaver wrote:

CTrent wrote: Does the entity have a name other than "the Darkness"? It sounds so infantile. Light magic and dark magic and hero and villain all sount infantile at any rate. The DARKNESS is pretty okay to me because I like that better than so random name, like Anthrax or Petronol or Nexus. Maybe Chaos, but Darkness sort of gets the point across.

Yes, it all sounds infantile. Which makes me wonder why Horowitz and Kitsis are so willing to cling to such terms, considering their willingness to portray their characters as ambiguously as possible.

And by the way, "darkness" or "black" doesn't always mean evil. So, I don't see any reason why the show's writers should resort to such idiotic phrases to describe someone's moral compass. And an entity known as "the Darkness"? This sounds like writing for simpletons. Well, I only assume that they were trying to use simple black and white philosphy and mix it with the moral grey, but it fails at some points. The Evil isn't born, it's made, is a great thing they did, but they sort of drove that into the ground.

Fairytales are often like that that's why I have no problem calling the evil swirling darkness "The Darkness". But I can't let them get away with proclaiming people as heroes and villains for absoolutely no reason. I like the simplicity and complexity because so many other shows and stuff try to make things more complicated than they need to be.

It makes since in-universe because in fairytales it's all black and white.