Thread:Valkerone/@comment-36819595-20180909153416/@comment-2059440-20180909154332

they are not tragic, were never meant to be seen as tragic and this is as bad when people try and say guys like Alan Yates are tragic - don't try alternate character crap here.. do that elsewhere and to be honest it won't work anywhere.

the Peacock Family embodied stagnation and resistance to change, that means they embodies everything WRONG with "rural life" - not the opposite.. that's kind of blatantly obvious from the page alone.

the whole "death of small towns" thing was also caused BY them, not against them.. when they killed the Sheriff, who never locked his door.. thus they broke the innocence of the small town.. not some "invader".

don't try and humanize what the show itself clearly designed and promoted as monsters, it's not really that clever and has been done to death - the show depicts them as villains and that's that.. move on.