User blog comment:LordTBT/News:New Redwall novel in 2011, Name a character!/@comment-24.112.46.17-20100717091316/@comment-2.123.210.165-20110827141837

Honestly, I think the whole vermin thing makes sense. It doesn't matter if you're a furry or not - what does that have to do with anything? - foxes are considered vermin in the UK and are treated as such. The Redwall books are a breath of fresh air in the sense that they have animals that are looked on quite lowly as rats are (mice) as heroes. Plus, correct me if I am wrong but Blaggut from 'The Bellmaker' wasn't a 'grey' character. True, it took him some time to become good but he became fully good at the end of the book and kept his promise to the Redwallers to revisit their abbey when they asked him.

And, in all honesty, this comment is quite disrespectful to the tradition that Brian Jacques has followed since first writing Redwall. If you do not like the way foxes are portrayed in these books, pick up 'The Animals of Farthing Wood' and read that instead but don't bash Brian and saying that it's a cheap shot because the 'cute, cuddly' foxes are always the villains in these books. I also love the way you're just whining about the foxes, but not the rats, stoats, ferrets or weasels.

And, yes, Jacques has written some 'good' creatures as bad and traitorous, just like he has written some 'bad' creatures as neutral or good creatures. So what? That doesn't make him a hypocrite - please look up the meaning of this word - it makes him wanting to make a more deeper personality to the character, to add conflict.