Great post, but I'd also like to add in that Jimmy isn't....well, he isn't normal, I guess is the best way to put it. By which, I mean he has a fundamentally different perspective on the idea of lies and truth than most people, in that he doesn't see anything wrong with lying if it gets you something. We talk about Jimmy and how his path was influenced by Chuck's hatred of him, but I think it ignores that Jimmy is pathologically wired to be a scammer.
This is what the "Batman should just kill the Joker" people always overlook. It's not actually Batman's place to kill the Joker. He is not the judge, jury and executioner of Gotham's criminal populace. He, like most superheroes, is a consultant allowed to assist on certain issues within certain parameters.
Even with the Good Dalek, that was only due to one in a million brain damage, and "good" just meant he wanted to kill other Daleks more than everything else.
Haven't watched in years but IIRC he just left her as she was. He's under no legal duty to save her.
No. She set herself and Jesse up so neither would choke on their own vomit if they threw up in the night. Walter knocked her onto her back and then, when she started to choke, let her.
Also true, and like I said it's easy enough to ignore when stacked against the sheer weight of how the Daleks are presented otherwise.
The narratives to TLoU and TLoU 2 have shown that there a lot of gamers who are woefully incapable of dealing with any sort if nuance or morally grey story beats in their video games.
There are several ships worth of people packed into the Raddus. They don't get wiped out until Poe and Finn botch the plan..
If you're talking about the two parter, definitely rewatch - that's not what happens. He's genuinely trying to help Matt, and Batman hates Roland Dagget, who is unequivocally framed as the villain. Matt is just so far gone that he can't come back, and ends up "ending" himself (though not definitively).
I think the same goes for a lot of action films where the message is 'it's more important to be cool, fearless, reckless, unpredictable and individual than to handle things reasonably alongside other people'. Kinda understandable for stuff aimed at teenagers about minor stakes, pretty shitty for adults flying massive weapons platforms or carrying guns around.,
Mudslide? Batman offers to help Clayface multiple times but he's too prideful and hates Batman too much to accept. And even when Batman busts in, he states that it's time for the lab professionals to take over Clayface's treatment. Batman's goal the whole episode is to get Clayface to accept real help rather than his crazy plan of manipulating a doctor and taking risky & untested drugs in secret. But Clayface hates Batman too much so he attacks and tries to suffocate Batman. And even when Batman escapes, Clayface chases after him into the rain despite being warned that the rain would kill him. The purpose of the episode was to show that Clayface had become too hateful & bitter to allow himself to be saved.
Hilariously, the episode was written by Scully's brother Brian Scully. Though Brian Scully's previous episode, Lost Our Lisa, accomplishes the same Lisa & Homer themes way more effectively. I always felt Make Room for Lisa was his attempt at striking gold twice since they were the only episodes written by him (hard to tell whether he pitched them or not with how old Simpsons worked. He might've been given the second episode and told to write it. I'd have to rewatch the commentary)
ah gotcha - I'm fairly sure batman offers him help in this episode as well, but I totally take your point that Batman does stop a treatment that the script seems to suggest was helping him, seemingly just because he stole it.
Once again, I'm happy to live in a place where you are legally required to assist people in danger lol
I hated that so much. "Oh shit, the bad guys are literally 100% in the right here about challenging the status quo. We don't want to support anything remotely progressive, so now they kill civilians for no reason."
I see where you are going but seriously fuck chuck
