Narnian Princess, Alan Rickman did make his name by playing the villain in "Die Hard." Then he was the evil Sheriff in "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves"--were it was he, not Robin, who did the stealing, stealing focus from the wooden Kevin Costner with his great line delivery. ("I'll cut out your heart with a spoon!") Next he played the villain in "Quigley Down Under," but this time with a hero--Tom Selleck--who could match him in acting. So by the time they let him play a good guy, Rickman must have really found it a refreshing switch.
Speaking of the very idea of being a good guy: at almost the VERY start of the revived Doctor Who series, the writers, who are somewhere light-years to the left of Karl Marx, got right into their heavy-handed moral-equivalence nonsense, the kind of tripe that ALWAYS ends up making the GOOD guys out to be MORE at fault. Thus they insisted that even THE DOCTOR HIMSELF, regardless of his centuries of pacifist credentials, must be made to feel ashamed of himself for wanting to kill a cute, charming, cuddly little Dalek--whom Rose indignantly DEFENDED against the "warmongering" Doctor! That the writers would thus beat their anti-militaristic dead horse PROVES, to me, that they are among those who want the whole free world to go round-heeled and fall down under the feet of tyrants and terrorists. THIS is the political correctness I said annoyed me in the recent season finale--with armed forces of the Earth made to look stupid and wrong even for trying to fight back when the Daleks were violently attacking the whole human race!
