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Should science fiction film and television shows allow the evilest of characters redemption?

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Should science fiction film and television shows allow the evilest of characters redemption?

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Looking back throughout film and television, one of the most interesting aspects of science fiction is that it allows for the possibility of redemption. In fact, some of our favorite heroes have been bad guys who gave up their evil-doing ways to fight for the cause of justice. Who would have ever thought that such previously soul-less individuals as Darth Vader, the Terminator, Alpha, Sylar, Lionel Luther, and Gaius Balter would one day be characters you would be rooting for? Yet that is exactly what happened. Anakin Skywalker, formerly Darth Vader, ultimately rejected his dark nature to repent his wrong-doings; the Terminator, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, came back as a good terminator for T2 and T3; Gauis Balter on “Battlestar Galactica” who originally handed over the humans to the Cylons, repented and sought to be a savior of mankind; Lionel Luther who had relentlessly tracked Clark Kent on “Smallville” became his protector; and astoundingly both Alpha on “Dollhouse” and Sylar o

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