re- Beware the Wrecker
Bit of bad writing as a bigger or no deal was made of the fact that maybe as much as a few 1000 folks were killed.............
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a bigger or no deal was made of the fact
Maybe there's a language barrier operating here, but I'm not sure what you meant. Did you mean that the writers should have made a bigger deal of the previous deaths? I thought they seemed pretty alarmed about it, and eventually offered to pay extortion money to the criminal (although tricking him with blank sheets of paper instead of money). (Also, note that no more deaths or injuries actually occurred after the initial explosions at the beginning of the episode. Superman foiled the next little plane, and then they caught the bomber before anyone else was hurt.)
What seemed really odd to me was that a tiny model airplane about 10 inches long could carry enough explosives to sink an ocean liner. That seemed pretty ridiculous.
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It that they could have made a bigger deal out of it
We're talking about lots of people here
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I understand what you mean. Thy seemed to be making a bigger deal out of the losses transportation companies were taking.
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You are looking at this as an adult. I think maybe they didn't want to focus on this because it would freak out the little kids who were watching.
A person's a person, no matter how small. -- Dr. Seuss
Good point.
shareI hadn't thought of that, and you're probably right. Now that you mention it, there were few deaths depicted in the series, and most (or all?) of those were implied, not shown on camera. E.g., the man and woman who fell off the mountain; or the three crooks who drove off the road after being distracted when the lead pipe containing kryptonite, that Superman threw into the bay, flew overhead after he tossed it.
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You're forgetting that the first season was a consciously adult show, with adult themes and treatment.
shareNo, I'm not forgetting that. But this episode aired late in the second season (January 30, 1954), after concerns had already been raised about excessive violence. After six more episodes, we'd be into season three beginning with the cartoonish "Through the Time Barrier."
A person's a person, no matter how small. -- Dr. Seuss
Mea culpa.
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