So Odo could only kill his brother in his sleep? As we all know it’s impossible to knife a person when they are not looking...and Odo needed Abigail's help to make his brother sleep? I also remember that the doll was mentioned to look like Odo. The scenarios do not make sense;
-Odo did it alone, but that does not explain the doll
-Odo saught Abigail's help, well this one is just stupid
-Abigail cursed Odo into it, but apparently its impossible to kill a person when they are not looking
Anyways I could not find a save file but here is an example of what you have to deal with in the English Witcher;
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2007/11 ... ript-ever/
It’s a lot harder to make sense of things when you are dealing with some situations that are more confusing than that.
As for my point about good & evil
1) Lets see I never stated that the other alternative is to paint the world into entirely black and white. If we use The Forever War as an example, there are two sides fighting each other one of them can be said to be good, but the book is not really about that. Its about the idea that if soldiers fight for five years and then do to the physics of space travel 50 years have passed on earth. When they finally do return they would no longer able to connect and have no choice but to re-enlist, hence the name 'Forever War'. It’s not about painting the world into black and white or that there is no good and evil but about alienation.
2) Two authors with the same theme will come up with work of varying value. Take two idiot 14 year olds and tell one to write a story about good and evil and the other about how there is no good and evil. Both of them will likely suck. That’s why simply going 'there is no good and evil' proves nothing.
3) Many authors have good and evil in their stories. I used King Lear and Shakespeare as an example and yet no one is going to argue that there is no depth to it. The problem is when people think 'good and evil' they think it’s just black vs. white when it does not have to be like that. Look at Crime & Punishment, Rodion’s action was 'evil' and yet no one thinks Dostoyevsky believed that the world was black vs. white. Also how can anyone forget Lord of the Rings? It’s good vs. evil and yet is still considered to be a great book with dept.
4) I did not mean that the Witcher is devoid of complexity. What I meant was that it was devoid of ideas and themes. I also acknowledged that I only am at Act 2 and am waiting for the enchanted edition. My original point was that simply going; 'there is no good and evil, therefore its good' is a poor argument. I also stated that juxtaposition is a poor for of development. To use the Abigail example, is it really a moral choice or is it one based on information? For example Odo, Priest and the bald guy are in it for money or power, Abigail might be an evil cultist and probably also likes money, between what two aspects of morality are you choosing when both sides represent a similar one? You could argue that it is about justice but the option that leads to a trial is simply a joke. Also you never fully find out the truth to anything, if you read the lengthy 'is Abigail evil?' thread in The Witcher forums, most of the posts are about trying to make sense of what has happened, not discussions on morality. Now complexity and mystery are not automatically exclusive to plots with 'grey morality.' Going back to Abigail it just seems like she was better developed than the others and you can say that because she was mistreated she had a better 'reason' than them for doing what she did. But the mystery is not why the characters did what they did but is instead clearly focused on what they actually did.
