In fairness, a lot of the Europeans are brutal and impossible to reason with savages, too, kinda, but I definitely see your point and agree. There was a whole of a lot less subtlety and variety and gradations in the non-European characters, which is a pity (especially since I think she's shown she can do shades-of-gray even with episodic characters).
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Date: 2009-02-24 03:49 am (UTC)