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Was there really ever a choice, free will? mild spoilers


To me
this show was very
fatalistic, however Daniel Knauf,
I believe, had said there was a choice.
Free will. I saw Justin Crowe, and thought,
that's the villain, and with Ben Hawkins knew
him to be the hero. The whole time I was hoping
Justin would repent, because Clancy Brown powerfully
played such a noble person, yet I knew it was a downward
spiral into darkness, which actually made me rather sad. I knew
where the overall plot was going, right from the beginning. I pictured
a conclusion like Stephen King's The Stand, or Robert R. Mccammon's Swan
Song. Despite Mr Knauf's Comments, it seems to me that there was foreboding
aura of destiny and fate. The mystery, in my opinion, however was in the lives and
choices of the supporting characters. This allowed me to keep watching this artistic visionary of television.






first a Gravesender.now a New Yorker.always a Gravesender.

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Well there is a choice -- look at Henry Scudder, who was also the "Child of Darkness" yet fled from his 'responsibility' and attempted to start a family away from it.

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