#Like they're heroes insofar as they're the main people in the story we're supposed to care about

[saints-who-never-existed]

Sometimes, I wonder what would have become of certain characters - guys like Gore and McDonald, for example - if they hadn't been killed extra-prematurely.

Would their continued presence have made any difference, and if so, how? What would it have taken for them to be pushed truly to the brink, to their absolute limit?

In essence, and for lack of a better phrase, they died as "heroes" but would they ever have become "villains" had they only lived longer?

#I always feel the need to clarify that I'm not actually calling any of them 'heroes' in any traditional sense #I mean it only as an imperfect synonym for 'protagonist' #Like they're heroes insofar as they're the main people in the story we're supposed to care about #More specifically for the likes of McDonald and Gore I mean it in the sense that they die before they can really be challenged #Before they face the huge ethical/moral quandaries that the others do #Before they have the chance to really do any bad or morally questionable things #They're heroes insofar as they're presented as 'good guys' and we never get the chance to see them be anything else #But yeah just a fun little hypothetical for a random Thursday #The Terror #The Terror AMC #Random Observations #Meta #Graham Gore #Alexander McDonald