I think he deserved way worse than just getting shot, and dying quickly after all he did. Anyone else think he got it to
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holatKolnoa — 1 year ago(December 20, 2024 05:11 PM)
But that's not what he's in for, cheeky. John Coffey's in for that, regardless of his not having been guilty.
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Cheeky — 1 year ago(December 20, 2024 07:46 PM)
Oh! Right
Well, he was a criminal,so you would expect him to be locked up
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maul — 5 months ago(October 10, 2025 11:56 PM)
Indeed, he deserved the extended vegetablized treatment instead of Percy, even though that obviously isn't feasible in the scenario.
Rewatching this, I do understand some of the criticisms regarding John's actions of "punishing the bad men". Up to that point he doesn't seem to have a vengeful bone in his body, so it feels a bit out of place when he essentially does a double-kill.
It's also unclear why Wild Bill needed to die at that moment, as he was going to get fried anyway. I used to think that it was mostly Percy himself who did the killing, but I believe it's explained differently in the book as some kind of John avatar with his actions being controlled. It felt a bit like the writer peaking through with "we can't have yet another execution scene so this Wild Bill thread needs to be quickly closed with something more dramatic".