HIGHLA-L Digest - 26 May 2006 to 27 May 2006 (#2006-91)
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Topics of the day:
1. HL Comix - Connor Fans!
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Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 20:28:45 -0400
From: Wendy <Immortals_Incorporated@cox.net>
Subject: Re: HL Comix - Connor Fans!
MM(?) says:
> I'm sometimes wondered whether it would have been
> cooler if Kronos had gotten away at the end of
> Revelations. Not that he had to keep returning over
> and over again, but even just to leave that story
> unfinished.
The problem with all serial dramas is that the hero has to win. Too
often on HL:TS the bad guys were built up as being bigger and badder and
better than anyone else and then Duncan whacks them while only breaking
a slight sweat. <g> That made Duncan look good but tended to diminish
the bad guys. Kronos was thousands of years old. While he had Silas and
Caspian and even Methos to do his dirty work for him, there was no
evidence that he didn't survive all those centuries on his skill in a
fight...and yet...a few rounds with Duncan and he's history. Now,
obviously, Kronos couldn't beat Duncan (or the series would need a new
name) but the longer the show went on, the less believable was Duncan's
luck/skill.
> (I know we would have missed the swirly quickening,
> but if you just love that to pieces, maybe a Silas &
> Caspian double-Q could have happened instead.)
I could have done without the homo-erotic double swirly Quickening.
> I just liked Kronos, thought he died too easily, and
> thought it would be cool to have Methos' past hanging
> over them indefinitely.
I tend to agree that having Kronos alive and out there somewhere would
have added...something ...to the plot. *Not* that I would have want
Kronos to reappear ever few years or even for us to have heard where he
was or what he was up to. Just knowing he was alive would have been
enough. OTOH, if he had survived, I doubt the writers could have
resisted bring him back for yet another showdown with Duncan and Methos
and that would have spoiled it. As it was, they brought him back in AAA
(and they brought him back looking like he did when Methos knew him
instead of how Duncan knew him)(I never did figure that out) If I had
been Duncan I would have taken one look and said "Go away, you headless
loser before I chop you into even smaller bits" instead of getting all
bent out of shape. <eg>
Wendy(Debbie!)(I said "homoerotic")
Immortals Inc.
immortals_incorporated@cox.net
"Weasels for Eternity"
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