I always meant to watch Breaking Bad, never quite got around to it.
Most media only engages with this theme on the edges, I just like when it's brought to the forefront. For me it's a very particular thing that not all gray-on-gray morality shows touch, sometimes everyone is just miserable and doing their best (or whatever is in their own self-interest). I wouldn't personally put Anakin in that category, but (from my knowledge of The Expanse which is the first two book, a couple of episodes, and fandom osmosis) I can kind of see at least Naomi's past in the OPA vs people harmed firsthand by OPA violence as an example of it.
In Black Sails Flint is basically trying to bring about a gay pirate revolution (whilst simultaneously getting revenge on those who have wronged him), after being exiled from England- officially for sodomy but also for helping disturb the political landscape with progressive legislative proposals. He wants a better world, but he also murders multiple members of his own crew (including one of his closest friends and supporters), and betrays multiple other allies because he thinks they're standing in the way of his vision, when most of those allies have also been severely harmed by England/the general political establishment. It's all very complicated and messy, but some of the characters he viewed as expendable (Max, Billy Bones) wind up as major players later who are less than impressed with his stated high-minded ideals, considering how he treated them in the past.
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Most media only engages with this theme on the edges, I just like when it's brought to the forefront. For me it's a very particular thing that not all gray-on-gray morality shows touch, sometimes everyone is just miserable and doing their best (or whatever is in their own self-interest). I wouldn't personally put Anakin in that category, but (from my knowledge of The Expanse which is the first two book, a couple of episodes, and fandom osmosis) I can kind of see at least Naomi's past in the OPA vs people harmed firsthand by OPA violence as an example of it.
In Black Sails Flint is basically trying to bring about a gay pirate revolution (whilst simultaneously getting revenge on those who have wronged him), after being exiled from England- officially for sodomy but also for helping disturb the political landscape with progressive legislative proposals. He wants a better world, but he also murders multiple members of his own crew (including one of his closest friends and supporters), and betrays multiple other allies because he thinks they're standing in the way of his vision, when most of those allies have also been severely harmed by England/the general political establishment. It's all very complicated and messy, but some of the characters he viewed as expendable (Max, Billy Bones) wind up as major players later who are less than impressed with his stated high-minded ideals, considering how he treated them in the past.