I watched it as a child and it was up there with PeeWee Herman as a cheap titillating story. I was too young to really grok the ending; it was boring and total

I watched it as a child and it was up there with PeeWee Herman as a cheap titillating story. I was too young to really grok the ending; it was boring and totally broke the character. Looking back, the ending fits in well with the tendency for TV and movies of the 80s and 90s to paste over an otherwise shameless action/comedy with a bit of moralizing to appease the puritanical censors of the day (GI Joe being a stark example). But, taking it at face value, ignoring the man behind the curtain, I kinda get how people are interpreting it here.