'Something Wicked' Musings

[ithildin]

Watching Something Wicked, and it occured to me to wonder -- did the Holy Hot Tub reverse Mac back to a 'blank slate'? Was the fire bomber guy that much worse than Kronos? Not that anything about Dark Quickenings makes all that much sense, but a random thought.

Richie asking if the teacher kills the pupil was bittersweet. [sigh]

Oh, and the fire bomber guy when he was doing his beatnik poet thing about Death. Hah! Don't know why I never made that connection in my brain before.

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[pat-t.livejournal.com]

and to try and make it clearer, Coltec didn't just take evil by taking quickenings of bad immortals. It was more than that. Duncan did that. Remember how Duncan was eat up with rage after Litte Deer was killed. And Coltec used his magic to pull that hate and rage out of him and take it into himself. Duncan tried to do the same to Coltec, but he couldn't because he didn't have that power.

Coltec took hatred and evil into himself from mortals and immortals. He didn't have to take an immortal's head to get it. THough I'm sure that is how he had to do most evil Immortals. But he took in all this evil and hatred for centuries.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I understood you the first go round [g]

It all makes much more sense in the morning when I'm actually awake and thinking about the episode!

There's a Forever Knight ep that's very similar with a set of knives that the Indian hayoka uses to absorb the evil.

Now, let's say that taking his friend's head hadn't been quite enough to push Duncan into DQ land... would taking the head of someone like Kronos have pushed him over the edge?

And now a random thought... light Qs. Thinking about it, doesn't make sense. Can't work like a DQ. A good person wouldn't suck the good from people...? Okay, brain still too sleepy, will think about it more as the morning goes on.

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

On Light Quickenings...

My take on it is that the "Ancient Immortal at the Gates of Paris" was a truly enlightened man. When Darius took his head, he was able to see his own life from a completely different perspective. It made him regret the choices he had made, and choose a new path.

I've been thinking about this while writing Joe's response to the DQ in my new story, "The Secret War." Of course, my OMC Jean-Pierre has a much more lyrical way of putting it!

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Err, ooops. I didn't do a very good job of getting back to it, did I?

I very much like your take on it. I'm glad you got back to it even if I didn't :)