Looks like an enjoyable panel. I find the part where Fraser is willing to risk others an unusual and interesting part of Due South, and not entirely a bad thing about his character. Current popular fiction likes to tell stories about heroes who never risk others for their own principles, stories in which holding a gun to the hero's head is useless to the villain, but holding a gun to someone else's head is the ultimate trump card. And that's not entirely realistic, and there's even something disturbing about the way one can only be a hero in those narratives by being lucky (if the choice is posed between saving your friends or the world, saving your friend ends up saving the world anyway) or by being an island unconnected to the net of human interdependencies, exactly the way libertarians imagine everyone to be.
(Plus, when I'm up to my eyeballs in fic where characters are overprotective to the point of not trusting each other to do the jobs they do in canon, it's soothing to know I can turn to Due South and find Fraser callously/trustingly risking the Rays for the sake of justice, same as ever.)
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Date: 2014-01-09 10:07 pm (UTC)(Plus, when I'm up to my eyeballs in fic where characters are overprotective to the point of not trusting each other to do the jobs they do in canon, it's soothing to know I can turn to Due South and find Fraser callously/trustingly risking the Rays for the sake of justice, same as ever.)