Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

True -- watching people behaving badly under the most stressful of circumstances (no matter how understandable their responses might be) doesn't incline me to like them much, though Scott DID come off well under those circumstances. Maybe they wanted to leave plenty of room for people to grow INTO heroes over time, but without at least a few more likable characters in the here-and-now, it's hard to work up much interest.