@avclub-4890b244b694eb077186da46702d0111:disqus And then proceeded to treat these people badly for taking the invented character seriously….?

Spider-Man absolutely acts like a mopey little bitch, just a teenage version of a mopey little bitch.

It's "Y Y Zed!"

D'Glester Hardunkichud

Skinemax Dunderclump

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no matter how debauched

Go Sawx.

We're still in the DS. S. DSs?

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If only Strong Bad had done a song about possessives and plurals, this whole tragedy could have been avoided. "NAZIS."

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I think back to the pilot: the sirens coming, the RV wrecked. Walt makes his tape, then puts the gun in his mouth. He can't do it. He points it toward the sirens instead.

The Godfather

It's less suicide (in his mind) and more "blaze of glory." If he dies in the attack that takes down the Nazis, he's dying in the line of duty. If he puts a gun in his mouth, that's a suicide. At least, that's how it strikes me.

It reminded me of a much more subdued take on the home invasion in A Clockwork Orange, particularly the classical music and the shots of Walter nonchalantly inspecting their photographs.

Eh, either way.

I wrote before about Breaking Bad and Macbeth, which is still a connection I think is worth drawing: Walter, like Macbeth, dooms himself by staring clear eyed at the right and choosing the wrong at the very beginning. All else is just fallout. Macbeth is about the nakedness of moral choice at its heart, about the…

"Thrived for"

Carrot Ironfoundersson. Strong as an ox, incorruptibly pure of heart, and whenever he decides to put on his kingy voice, even hardened criminals do whatever he says. Plus, he could help cut down on the rat population by eating them (with ketchup).