I read this right before going to bed and slept and woke up and realized I had misspoken. Since I only started seeing him as potentially irredeemable after 3.11, his homophobia (which was evident by 3.8) wasn't the clincher for me. It was his racism + sexism + everything else.
Even the fact that he intentionally injured someone, I may have seen as immature not-thinking-things-through or a sign of true pathology, if it weren't coupled with the other stuff.
But taken all together, when I woke up I realized that, from henceforth unless proven otherwise, I'll see Sebastian's story line as the fear of losing white male upper/upper-middle-class privilege. It may be an authentic fear, and a learned fear, but it's a fear I don't have a lot of sympathy with. And I say that as one of Sebastian Smythe's fellow WASPs.
On to Dalton being the Underworld - I've seen references to this but never spelled out clearly, so thank you for explaining it to me. (What's AIWNSG, by the way?) I will have to learn more about it before I form a true opinion, but I generally take literary metaphors/analogies as useful but not prescriptive - a place in a story may symbolize death and rebirth for one character or many characters, but not all. And writers often like to tweak the metaphor/analogy or completely flip it on its head somewhere in the story - that's what provides tension and conflict, because it's something other than what the audience has come to expect. But I may become a convert to Dalton/Hades yet! Like, if Sebastian's evilness dies there.
I know about the actor who plays Trent having appeared in an earlier episode as a McKinley student, though I haven't formed a strong opinion on whether they are the same person yet. But I'm confused about Matt - he left McKinley but I didn't think he'd transferred to Dalton (never saw him there). Did I miss something?
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Even the fact that he intentionally injured someone, I may have seen as immature not-thinking-things-through or a sign of true pathology, if it weren't coupled with the other stuff.
But taken all together, when I woke up I realized that, from henceforth unless proven otherwise, I'll see Sebastian's story line as the fear of losing white male upper/upper-middle-class privilege. It may be an authentic fear, and a learned fear, but it's a fear I don't have a lot of sympathy with. And I say that as one of Sebastian Smythe's fellow WASPs.
On to Dalton being the Underworld - I've seen references to this but never spelled out clearly, so thank you for explaining it to me. (What's AIWNSG, by the way?) I will have to learn more about it before I form a true opinion, but I generally take literary metaphors/analogies as useful but not prescriptive - a place in a story may symbolize death and rebirth for one character or many characters, but not all. And writers often like to tweak the metaphor/analogy or completely flip it on its head somewhere in the story - that's what provides tension and conflict, because it's something other than what the audience has come to expect. But I may become a convert to Dalton/Hades yet! Like, if Sebastian's evilness dies there.
I know about the actor who plays Trent having appeared in an earlier episode as a McKinley student, though I haven't formed a strong opinion on whether they are the same person yet. But I'm confused about Matt - he left McKinley but I didn't think he'd transferred to Dalton (never saw him there). Did I miss something?