His punish for trying to kill himself it’s funny how just before he was about pull the trigger he finds the books he was saying he would forgive me , but just the actions alone wasn’t no chance if forgiveness so that was punish everything took right before his eyes
It’s a headcanon of mine that the military showed up and found him. They let Bemis take all those books with him. He now lives in a small house in a quiet community with all those books.
If he is really smart, in no time he will find an optical store and find the glasses he needs. But if he is just an inveterate reader without intelligence (Axes and swords do not create powerful wood cutters from fools) He will die in less than a week because he won't even know how to find something more important: food and drink.
I, penguin, am the only super being in Gotham? Heheheheheheh! I can build the longest cigarette holder and noone can stop me ‐-----------------🚬 💨 💦 No! It's not fair, there was fire now fire enough at last
After first seeing this as a kid, in later viewings I would turn off the TV right before the end and pretend he had his books. Did it again today. Came here just to figure out how in to the episode I could safely go.
Something I never noticed before, the book he tried to pick up was the book he was holding moments earlier. He sets it down before going to the clock. I used to think it was a different book he was holding which always lead me to wonder "Why did he bother reaching down for that other book, when he already had another near him?"
I've just started watching TZ and just seen this episode, brilliant as they all are, just a few points- * He didn't need glasses to see, he could have punched holes in a bit of cardboard or a book cover lol and held it up to his eyes, like they do at the opticians with those plastic pinhole glasses. * Was he bad in that he was obsessed with reading to such an extent he annoyed everyone or was he good in that he had a thirst for knowledge and stories? * Was his wife a tyrannical miscreant who tormented him with the crossed out poetry pages or just grown sick of his obsession? * Was he autistic? * Did he not think to go and look for some discarded glasses? Wasn't he careless putting them on the edge of the sofa? TZ always leaves me with so many questions and thoughts, I like that because it's not all done for you, it leaves you pondering human action and how differently we would do things to the protagonist.
As an 80's baby and a 90's child, this one episode was particularly sad for me you see. My mother worked at American Library Association in downtown Chicago. She would take me to work with her on the weekend while she did what was called "Booklist." I LOVED reading. From the posters where everyone was encouraged to read, to the "mind is a terrible thing to waste," and so on. I often thought as a child, "how come no one read that?" Especially since in that era, radio and reading were a HUGE part of the way that people collected their news. SMH! THEN, to add insult to injury, at the end, those big thick glasses BROKE! WOW
