#kodos

Now, my goal is drawing a human character from The Simpsons, in the show! I'm still debating which one should be?

I'm sure there's worse but damn...

Love, love, love that they opened The Conscience of the King with the murder scene from Macbeth. That we first see the clean knife before we ever see who holds it. That Kodos is then presented literally with blood on his hands. (It's fitting given how the mass executions were described officially as painless whereas blood suggests pain and physical violence. And what a thing to have the record be so conflicting throughout the episode according to the sources! Both Kirk and Leighton as eyewitnesses refer to it as a butchering and Riley uses "murder" but Spock describes it to McCoy as, "they died quickly, without pain." Would Starfleet omit details in their official records or do the eyewitnesses use violent descriptors to bring physical pain back into something that lacked it, i.e. disintegration chambers?) That the character of Macbeth is torn about his actions whereas Kodos will not be ("I was a soldier in a cause" as his justification and as is later revealed, he cares only about Lenore remaining untainted by his deeds). That Macbeth has no witnesses to his crime versus Kodos (9 eyewitnesses!). That Lenore watches the aftermath as Lady Macbeth and as Kodos' daughter. There's such a delightful use of Shakespeare in this episode.