My Commonplace Book

Watching The Book of Mormon Musical with normal non-Mormon people surrounding me in the crowd felt like being present when your mom tells your most embarrassing childhood stories to strangers. It was fantastic but also caused me psychic damage. I cried laughing many times. I felt viscerally dizzy throughout. 9/10

Imploring people to realize black and white morality is still black and white even if you swap which one the audience is supposed to root for. If you go "Well actually in this story the HEROES are actually all terrible people with no nuance and the VILLAINS are all sympathetic with no bad traits" the actual moral complexity is exactly the same. Especially since if you define "hero" as "protagonist" not even the roles have meaningfully changed.