NS: New York Times Article Spoils Batman #50

[history79]

"The answers to the questions are found in letters the couple have written to each other before their wedding day. Mr. Wayne’s correspondence reveals an acceptance of Ms. Kyle, who in her time has been a jewel thief, a villain, an antihero and a mob boss. “You’re not someone who can be figured out. Or solved. And never will be,” he declares. He also writes that he can be “more than a boy whose parents are dead,” that he can be “the man who loves you. Who will always try to love you better.”

Ms. Kyle’s letter lays out the truth as she sees it: “You’re still a child, Bruce. A hurt child.” Their happiness, she speculates, would kill Batman, who rescues everyone and turns pain into hope. “How can I do that,” she writes. “To save the world, heroes make sacrifices.”

In order to keep countless innocents safe, she concludes that she cannot marry Mr. Wayne. “My sacrifice is my life. It’s you.”

In the final moments of their story, the bride and groom end up at different locations in the early morning hours. In a silent page, Ms. Kyle sits on a rooftop, contemplating. She discards her veil and leaps toward the street. At the Finger Tower skyscraper, after an hour of waiting for his bride, Mr. Wayne realizes she is not coming. He throws off his tie and takes a similar leap, but in the opposite direction. Theirs is a story that is forever to be continued."

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/01/fashion/weddings/it-just-wasnt-meant-to-be-batman.html

Comments

[thezmage]

This reminds me of the show Home Improvement. They built for a whole season the idea of Al Borland getting married, only to not get married because they just didn’t want to. I remember thinking at the time “if the hero’s sidekick can’t get married, what even is the point of all of this? It’s not like Al’s dating life is such a huge and integral part of the show.”

I really hope the follow up stories to this is Bruce wondering how he could be the world’s greatest detective when he almost married someone who knows him so poorly

[icon_uk]

In situations like the one you mention, it might be that one of the actors didn't want to commit to more episodes the following season and so the whole thing went kaput.

Plus I wonder if it happens more often than it doesn't. Just in terms of sitcoms, I'm thinking of; Friends, Frasier, even Everbody Loves Raymond who all did it, and even Al on HP DID get married in a later season

[thezmage]

Al was the sidekick on Tim’s tv show. I don’t think they even had a permanent set for his home, there was nothing keeping him from getting married and making offhand references to his offscreen wife every once in awhile. I remember non-weddings happening a lot on sitcoms back then, but this one I always thought was the most egregious.