I have very . . . complicated feelings about the end of BH, actually. On the one hand, I liked it for breaking out of that frustrating Golden Age mold you can see particularly in a lot of the short stories, where Peter just pops in to solve something awful, and then pops out again with a wave. And it makes perfect sense that Peter's conscience would come into play -- someone said somewhere that Peter's lasting trauma from the war is clearly deep discomfort with being responsible for other people's lives, and that makes perfect sense. But at the same time . . . hmm. It bugged me that Peter's conscience is about Peter, you know? That within the frame of the book, the important internal conflict is Peter's for having caught a killer, not the victim's, or the secondary and tertiary victim's, or the killer's. Which, I mean, Peter is the person we care about, obviously, and I'm not explaining this well. Must think more.
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Date: 2011-01-11 05:36 pm (UTC)I have very . . . complicated feelings about the end of BH, actually. On the one hand, I liked it for breaking out of that frustrating Golden Age mold you can see particularly in a lot of the short stories, where Peter just pops in to solve something awful, and then pops out again with a wave. And it makes perfect sense that Peter's conscience would come into play -- someone said somewhere that Peter's lasting trauma from the war is clearly deep discomfort with being responsible for other people's lives, and that makes perfect sense. But at the same time . . . hmm. It bugged me that Peter's conscience is about Peter, you know? That within the frame of the book, the important internal conflict is Peter's for having caught a killer, not the victim's, or the secondary and tertiary victim's, or the killer's. Which, I mean, Peter is the person we care about, obviously, and I'm not explaining this well. Must think more.