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and then IMMEDIATELY turns around to save the day by GETTING IN A HUGE SWASHBUCKLING FIGHT AND KILLING LIKE SIX PEOPLE AND BEING ACCLAIMED AS A HERO THROUGH THE TOWN!

. . . Welp.

Weirdly, this is very nearly the exact problem I have with the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Hollow Pursuits." [edit] Not the violent swashbuckling, which I feel would have made the episode memorable in the extreme: the part where the redemptive ending totally undercuts the entire point of the narrative up till then and therefore axes the moral of the story.