I think he's (Rebus) on the side of the angels and he's a complex character, he's a bit of a maverick, he tries to do the right thing but sometimes goes about it the wrong way. I think we like that, we like the fact that he is trying to get the right result, he's trying to put bad people behind bars.
At the same time, he's quite a mixed up character and he ages in real time, so if you have lived with the series as a reader, you will have seen an age and he now aches in places where he used to play as a famous singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen once put it. So you know, he's like us. And he's lived in one of the most extraordinary cities in the world, Edinburgh.
And some people think they know Edinburgh, they might have seen it on screen, they might have visited it as a tourist and I say, well actually, there's a bit more to the city and that. And here's the guy that will show you around.
"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!"
Shakespeare, King Lear (Edmund) Act I, scene ii
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