I dunno. Milton managed to make Satan sympathetic enough ("better to reign in hell than serve in heaven") that scholars have been arguing for centuries over whether Milton was some brand of heretic--having read his text, I'd say Milton was pretty orthodox, but his treatment lent itself well to entertainment, and he never forgot that Satan was in fact evil.
Not that Kripke and Co. are anywhere near Milton's level of brilliance, but if they take a cue from him (rather than, say, from Phillip Pullman), we might end up all right in the end.
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Date: 2009-08-26 04:43 pm (UTC)I dunno. Milton managed to make Satan sympathetic enough ("better to reign in hell than serve in heaven") that scholars have been arguing for centuries over whether Milton was some brand of heretic--having read his text, I'd say Milton was pretty orthodox, but his treatment lent itself well to entertainment, and he never forgot that Satan was in fact evil.
Not that Kripke and Co. are anywhere near Milton's level of brilliance, but if they take a cue from him (rather than, say, from Phillip Pullman), we might end up all right in the end.