I used to think that loving the baddies in films and TV shows meant yet another thing must be wrong with me – was I fundamentally evil? Now I realise I like them so much because the baddies get the best lines and the best outfits. More than that, they also get to have power over their circumstances. No one makes them feel silly or tells them to ‘Shhh!’. Instead, everyone has to bow and curtsey to them to make them feel the opposite of silly. Until the last act of the film, they control everything in their world. They wage wars and foil enemies and command things, and they don’t have to worry
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