This show is really good with adult characters! As someone who regularly plays an adult in real life, I appreciate that on my high school shows.
See, one of the reasons I really do like Scott is that I *don't* think he tends toward black/white thinking. Or, I guess he does have pretty sharp instincts for how to proceed according to his own moral code, but what I think is interesting is that he's exceptionally (to a fault, really) forgiving of other people, which to me is something you really can't do if you're in the mindset of Right is Right and Wrong is Wrong and there are Good People and Bad People. Scott's never proceeded as if that were the case; that's *why* he can become friends with Chris, and why he can let Deucalion off with a stern warning to Think About His Life Choices, and why he can go to the mat for Jackson, who worked really hard to make Scott hate him. The thing I think is so special about Scott isn't really that he'll risk his life to save people, it's that he really seems to value people, even when they are a pain in his ass.
Of course, you're quite right that he has the advantage of the writers protecting him, so that he can keep extending the benefit of the doubt and not have it bite him in the ass, and as they explicitly called out at the end of s4, all his workarounds to keep from having to kill anyone actually do work. I have a feeling they're waiting for the right time to pull that out from under him, and we'll see how close he comes to breaking when that happens.
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Date: 2015-06-17 02:15 am (UTC)From:See, one of the reasons I really do like Scott is that I *don't* think he tends toward black/white thinking. Or, I guess he does have pretty sharp instincts for how to proceed according to his own moral code, but what I think is interesting is that he's exceptionally (to a fault, really) forgiving of other people, which to me is something you really can't do if you're in the mindset of Right is Right and Wrong is Wrong and there are Good People and Bad People. Scott's never proceeded as if that were the case; that's *why* he can become friends with Chris, and why he can let Deucalion off with a stern warning to Think About His Life Choices, and why he can go to the mat for Jackson, who worked really hard to make Scott hate him. The thing I think is so special about Scott isn't really that he'll risk his life to save people, it's that he really seems to value people, even when they are a pain in his ass.
Of course, you're quite right that he has the advantage of the writers protecting him, so that he can keep extending the benefit of the doubt and not have it bite him in the ass, and as they explicitly called out at the end of s4, all his workarounds to keep from having to kill anyone actually do work. I have a feeling they're waiting for the right time to pull that out from under him, and we'll see how close he comes to breaking when that happens.