[DISCUSS] Gaston is better than the Beast

[Kim]

I've recently come to the conclusion that Gaston is better than the beast in basically every way, and every way that he isn't the Beast is just as bad.

Gaston is confident, charismatic, strong, very skilled in his areas of interest, and has a great singing voice. Based on the movie, we can really only say, of these, that the beast is strong. Hell, the movie tries to characterize Gaston as dumb, but he's quick to come up with plans and has a pretty decent vocabulary. He's only dumb if you think the only kind of intelligence that matters is book smarts, which is silly.

Both were evil guys who locked Bell and her father away, but the Beast did it right off the bat. It at least took Gaston time to resort to that. What's more, the Beast locked Bell's dad away for the stupidest fucking reason. At least when Gaston did it, it was part of a plan, even if it was an evil plan.

Ultimately, people compare Gaston at the end of the movie to the Beast at the end of the movie, which really isn't fair. Everything was geared in the Beast's favor from the beginning, in terms of becoming a less terrible person. That's why he was cursed, after all. He had more motivation to become a less terrible person as a result, he also had an entire house full of servants with personal interest in him becoming a less terrible person. He also had Bell's Stockholm Syndrome love to ~change him into a better person~, because we all know that love makes abusive people change their ways.

I mean, say what you will about Gaston, but at least he doesn't have that fucked up moral attached to his character.