Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161023154654/@comment-14138255-20161030035628

Monsieur Le Bete never stabbed Belle or cut her bestie's arm off for wanting to save her. And even then, several adaptations made The Beast look sympathetic by showing his pain at being stuck as a beast and/or dying when the rose dies off.

Adam meanwhile.....doesn't. He is never shown in a sympathetic light, even in his first appearence (the aeformentioned "ahhhh fuck 'em" moment that caused Blake to pack it in). And just because he was one of the first introduced doesn't make him good. Cluny the Scourge (from Redwall, muh childhood XD) was introduced in the first episode, and he is not a good person, he is the main villain of the season.

Even 3 dimensional villains (like Gul Dukat from Star Trek: Deep Space 9) can't be so easily redeemed if they even should be redeemed. Dukat was a humanistic character who loved his illegimate daughter and genuinely wanted people to like him, but he couldn't wrap his head around the fact that he was essentially a Nazi Concentration Camp Kommandant and was hated by the people he persecuted (and wants a pardon from) and seems to think people are his friend when he is such a morally dubious person who rewrites how people see him in his head to fit his perception of being a tormented soul that people just misunderstand.