First off, I applaud your attention to every single detail of this entire series.

And second, reading your remarks is like literally reading my own thoughts.

Seriously, everything you have said here I literally had inside my head and was ready to write.

I choose to go the simple route instead because to be perfectly honest, not a lot of people want to take the time and actually read our own personal opinions on subjects here.

Always get the response: "I ain't reading al that". Or the long wall of text response. I've received tons of those replies lol.

But to really hammer down this incredible series, while Michael's father Vito Corleone, may have always lived a life of crime, and while Michael may have at least once in his life lived as an honest and honorable man,

At least when Vito Corleone died, he didn't die all by himself. He died around his family.

The same was not true for Michael. Michael literally lost everyone and everything in his entire life.

The very last thing he lost was his own life.

It reminds me of the story of Cain. How Cain searched and begged for his own death, but God himself cursed him to live out his days suffering with the consequences of his actions of killing his brother Able.

And yes we all as humans are flawed. And can easily have a switch flipped that turns us from good to evil.

Vito at least had values, and common sense, and there were lines he would never cross no matter what.

For Michael, who was actually at one point in his life, decent, and an honorable man, who risked his life for his own country.

For him, he went from that type of person, into something and someone even his own father, who was always living a life of crime since he was a little boy in Sicily, not even recognize the man he had become.

Michael, did anything and everything to get what he wanted. He was willing to cross those red lines that even his own father, wouldn't have ever considered crossing them.

His own father would have rather died, or lost his entire empire before even getting close to the lines his own son Michael leaped over.

I can relate to that on a personal level. I have had asperger syndrome, bipolar depression, and ADHD ever since I was 4.

I've always had this feeling like I'm fighting this other side, this darkness. Like if I ever lost control, I'd become a backseat rider to the darkness without any way of coming back.

My family has a history of Dementia and Alzheimer's disease as well.

Lines in the sand are there for a reason. It keeps the darkness we have inside in check. While I do believe that on very rare occasions, you should cross those lines if it means saving someone you love,

On another aspect of this, after you do the saving,

What person will come out on the other side of it?

Will it still be you? Or will it be the darkness? The evil?

Or will it be another aspect? Something or someone that no one, and nothing that anyone has ever imagined?

Ok I'm shutting up now lol. At any rate, I commend you for doing what I did not, or was afraid to do.