Redemption of Anakin and other redemption stories (moved from Main)

[sistermagpie]

Alla: 
> I also in a way find Snape's redemption from being DE to be strangely well, abstract in a same way.

Magpie:
Or maybe the problem is that it's the opposite. I mean, Snape started out as an innocent kid who loved Lily. But then he turned into a DE who loved Lily. And then he got Lily killed, and wanted to make that up, so he did.

And that's all he did. That's why I don't really see it as redemptive. It's redemption in the most literal sense since he does pay back the crime he wanted to pay back, but it's just not a greater redemption that I can see. He continues to reject that, as we see in his relationships with other people, old and new.

Alla:
> Zuco in Avatar was lovely.

Magpie:
Ha. I remember writing a whole piece on him called "And THAT'S a redemption story!" He's like a whole different person, but at the same time clearly the person he was all along.

-m