It's hard for me to enjoy favorite #TV #Characters coming back only to be killed off so the main character can escape/survive. It painfully reminds me these are lesser characters used as #PlotDevices serving the main show and whomever the show is mainly about.

imo, the only viability for the hero/villain foil re: artistic analysis is the examination of just who it is that thinks of whom as what, and why
beyond that it's antiquated and superficial at best, + often puritanical and dangerous

since either word is subjective, it's then about the attachment of meaning to abstract concepts within the context of your story. aka: slapping an empty word on your hard work.

I think you deserve better.

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In Sunstorm, the final attack is obscured and hinted at. But this difference amounts to only a few pages of text at most. A suspicion of lying here and a private conversation there primes the reader to think about what's going on in the world that they don't yet know about. There's a small amount of mystery afoot. It's this mystery which which makes the reveal satisfying.

Without anticipation, there is no release.

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