never forgive, never forget, never compare

@ The bomb was bad, and probably not the best solution.
@ The victims of the bomb for the most part suffered less than most victims of the war.
@ In a war of military violence against civilians, the bomb doesn't really stand out.
@ Trying to make people feel bad about one aspect of a multi-faceted history is not reasonable.
@ I don't "get it" because there is no "getting it".

deus ex machina.

I hate deus ex machinas like crazy... but not the literal ones. Like if hephastus all popped up at the end of "revenge of the sith" and gave us a little dose of moralizing before setting everything right with a magic hammer, I could find that charming.

What I despise is our awful modern equivalent. Right at the peak of action, some special, previously unannounced rule is revealed, and all is set right! or some previously inaccessible memory is recalled, or a previously unrecognized ability, or in some other way all the previous struggle is obviated. I blame sci-fi and fantasy for this shit... maybe I'm off-base, but it seems like sci-fi/fantasy stories have the annoying habit so down pat that they must have invented it.

Take a story like the matrix for example, the first one. The whole of the action takes place because of a rule change of physics. bon. In the final moment, the farm boy realizes he's a super hero and flies away. Well, nearly. To tell the truth, the Matrix gave us the sense that it was coming, and it was part of a bigger logic. I don't have too much beef with that, its just a movie that I feel like I can't possibly be spoiling for anyone.

Omniscient narrators are responsible for foreshadowing, JK!