--and to be honest, I only have a vague, general knowledge of the Braveheart story. I'd better go read up, too.
I like the cantankerous side of you that gets you to look at the people whom we *don't* want to sympathize with and makes us question that. Which doesn't mean I want you supporting oppressing people, or despots--not at all. Just that I like that you're not likely to let it be easy.
In Pugelbone, even though the lines were very clearly drawn, what I liked was how you showed how the therapist just didn't get how blind she was to her own prejudices and notions, and how you showed the main character trying to gauge what she could say that would let her escape the situation with the least damage--how threatening the situation that, supposedly, was for the main character's benefit, actually was. That was great.
Re: ETA
I like the cantankerous side of you that gets you to look at the people whom we *don't* want to sympathize with and makes us question that. Which doesn't mean I want you supporting oppressing people, or despots--not at all. Just that I like that you're not likely to let it be easy.
In Pugelbone, even though the lines were very clearly drawn, what I liked was how you showed how the therapist just didn't get how blind she was to her own prejudices and notions, and how you showed the main character trying to gauge what she could say that would let her escape the situation with the least damage--how threatening the situation that, supposedly, was for the main character's benefit, actually was. That was great.