The Butcher Shop

When I was a little kid (born 1973), we all thought that we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000. We had just been to the moon several times, even though the last moon trip was 1972. There was enough science fiction that said we'd be all over the place by the mid-1990s.  So I love comic books like this that shows little vacations to the moon. I also envy the future. We are still in this technology infancy when going to the moon is still science fiction. One day, side trips to the moon will be standard. If only I could see the day.

In this episode of Batman, he fully knows that the bad guy is going to take out the other bad guy. He has so much foreknowledge that he makes sure that Robin brought a camera. And then, knowing full well what was going to happen, knowing enough to shout to Robin to take the picture, Batman allows the shooting and murder, just to prove a point and make the bad guy go to jail. Yeah, sure, they were bad guys. Scum. But is this Batman?

The Prisoner in “A.B. and C.” One of the most remarkable things about literary criticism is being able to squeeze meaning out of just a few syllables. Poetry is like that. The interpretations can sometimes take multiple pages when the poem itself is only a few lines, or words, long. Based on one line that gets used twice in this episode of The Prisoner, one can deduce a lot about a rather minor character. The doctor, Number Fourteen, is like this. Admittedly, there is nothing dynamic about this character. She is just the scientific doctor. Any person would do in this spot. We get a couple of splashes of character in lines like “Nothing like a good party,” but for the most part, these are generic lines that could be given to any character. It is the one line that gets repeated that tells great things about the inner moral struggle about Number Fourteen. “We all make mistakes; sometimes we have to.” Envision Number Fourteen as just an average scientist but with a fabulous new ...

January 28, 2016 at 07:43AM via Facebook

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