Does anyone else find the poster ridiculous?

the meaning behind the poster is that no one else is gonna solve your problems, you gotta pick yourself up, and start a new life. Although the idea is to be admired, I agree that it is a little too photoshopped, and he should have been dragging himself, or exhuming at a grave with his name on the tombstone, some other type of dramatic symbolism.

I agree. The post is totally ridiculous. I get what they're trying to convey, but they don't need to spell it out like that. I like your idea of him looking at himself in a mirror. That would have been smarter and nicer. He could have just been standing there and that would have been better than having him carry himself like that.

Cause it's just not cool to be a Nazi anymore baby. - Half Nelson

I didn't understand the poster until I saw the pilot; now I understand it after having watched the show.

In saving others, he is saving himself.

So no, he couldn't be looking at a mirror, they had to show him saving himself.

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To me, this looks like a version of La Pieta, the most famous of which is Michelangelo's version, where Mary holds a lifeless Christ in her arms. Maybe it's a reference to his sort of "resurrection," new life, and saving others? Check out a picture and see what you think. (BTW, I'm totally not a religious person -- I'm an art history major, and this is the image I immediately thought of when I saw the poster.)

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Michelangelo's_Pieta_5450_cropncleaned_edit.jpg

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