This sequence is one of the most extreme examples of Breathed ignoring (or most likely forgetting about) what he’d written before, in this case Tom Binkley formerly having been a conservative, world-weary, narrow-minded foil to his son. The dynamic had been easing off for a couple of years before this, but with this storyline, the whole thing just turned inside out. Breathed is a brilliant writer, but continuity was never his forte. =) It’s up to us to imagine what kind of philosophical transformation Tom went through, and what could have brought it on.
This sequence is one of the most extreme examples of Breathed ignoring (or most likely forgetting about) what he’d written before, in this case Tom Binkley formerly having been a conservative, world-weary, narrow-minded foil to his son. The dynamic had been easing off for a couple of years before this, but with this storyline, the whole thing just turned inside out. Breathed is a brilliant writer, but continuity was never his forte. =) It’s up to us to imagine what kind of philosophical transformation Tom went through, and what could have brought it on.