At the tail end of the 2010s, we’ve come into a mindset as a fandom where we analyze everything we watch extremely carefully — sometimes for the better, sometimes to a fault. One thing I’ve seen a lot of hangups on in the last handful of years is what the presence of a character type is assumed to mean about a creator. That is, if a character is present in a series as anything but an outright villain, the writer approves of anything they say or do. I could absolutely speak to some shows where this is the case, but more often than not . . . it just isn’t. And so much is being missed by making this assumption.