Prince equals HDS?
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Originally posted by DalekTek790:
[b]Another major difference between the two characters is that Prince’s job is to spread evil and chaos, while His Shadow sees it as his function to create and enforce order throughout all of existence. Granted, his order isn’t exactly the kind of order most humans would consider [b]good[/b], it still stems from a philosophy directly antithetical to Prince’s.
Okay, here’s the major difference as I see it: His Divine Shadow is human, Prince is a inhuman. Like I said up above, I know His Shadow isn’t exactly human, his consciousness comes from an Insect, but his mental workings are like ours. You can understand his thoughts, feel his pain, and see his inner conflict. There is pathos. Prince is the exact opposite of this. There’s nothing human about him. Prince is the corporeal manifestation of chaos and depravity in the universes. He is the [b]definition[/b] of evil. He says it himself: “Because I’m bad.” You would never hear His Divine Shadow say anything like that. He believes what he’s doing is good. He’s accelerating and focusing humanity’s destructive tendancies in order to reestablish a murdered race. What he does may be awful, but in his mind he’s just robbing the rich to feed the poor. Prince, on the other hand, knows and openly acknowledges that what he’s doing is wrong, but he does it anyway.
His Divine Shadow and Prince are both enamies is [i]Lexx[/i], but the similarity ends there.
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I get the point about Prince promoting chaos while HDS enforces order and I think it’s a good paralell, but I still don’t see what humanity, inner conflict, or pathos you’re talking about. It is _possible_ that HDS has those qualities, but he never justifies his actions one way or another. He never says “I’m doing this because…”, which leaves us to draw our own conclusions about his motives, and I think he’s just a big nasty evil *******. Just my point of view on this topic.
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Gideon: I thought you said you don’t hold a grudge.
Galen: I don’t. I have no living enemies. At all.