dead on. ouch

The insanity gets so intense and Chuck's got to keep amping up his own level to stay with it to the point that finally, Chuck screaming I can't! starts sounding like he's terrified by the very possibility of flashing, rather than the opposite, which I would say is the secret-secret point of all of this, buried under the secret point that has become the actual point: Not fear of irrelevance, but fear of the responsibility of full adulthood. I mean, "fear of success" has been trampled into the ground since the '80s and it doesn't really mean anything, but in this case "I can't flash!" does double duty as, "If I flash the world will end," because of course, that's also true; it's also a too-hard concept to get your head around a lot of the time. Fear of success isn't about feeling sorry for yourself, it's about not knowing what you'll look like.


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