"Six months? Give me six days!"
It's incredible how close we are to the end. Next episode is the penultimate one.And yet still we have an episode of the racketeers being caught with one racket and moving on to another, with set pieces and car chases to pad things out... yet things are padded out so well. This is so much fun to watch.
Two interesting pounts to note, though. The vote rigging plot is wrapped up so quickly- if only Trump's criminal anticsat trying to steal the 2020 election across the pond could be so easily dealt with- and we move on. This is accomplished through narrative by newspaper front page... and one headline shows the word "armoured" spelled with a "u" as per this side of the Atlantic. Did Americans go through a phase of being less pernickety about Noah Webster's linguistic diktats in 1940?
The second is that there's a random German baddie, in an American movie serial made in 1940 by an industry in which Jewish men were able to enjoy a rare exercise of power, alongside those in the comics industry. It would be nice to think this was political.
Away from such very weighty matters, though, this is fun. It will be interesting to see if the penultimate episode feels penultimate, though...
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