Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cvl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!elsie!cvl!kayuucee From: kayuucee@cvl.UUCP (Kenneth W. Crist Jr.) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: Re: Jean Grey Message-ID: <924@cvl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 16:13:36 EST Article-I.D.: cvl.924 Posted: Fri Nov 1 16:13:36 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 14:48:37 EST References: <878@cvl.UUCP> <2021@reed.UUCP> <317@pedsgd.UUCP> <900@cvl.UUCP> <331@pedsgd.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Computer Vision Lab, U. of Maryland, College Park Lines: 26 > Doesn't wash, I feel. If the Phoenix is a being of pure energy by nature, > how could they strip her of 'herself'? To borrow a line from Scotty in > Blish's 'Spock Must Die' novel, "I'd sooner stick a thirteen-amp tap > directly into God". :-) > > I think my original proposition is still right; in Rachel's timeline > Jean Grey had her powers amplified to cosmic levels; after the Shi'ar > battle they stripped her of this, she and Scott were married and had > Rachel. The dichotomy arose when Jim Sh**ter decided it was a good > idea to bring her back and needed to rationalize it; 'Oh, that wasn't > really Jean all that time, it was a deus-ex-machina we brought in so > we could bring the real Jean back later and invalidate the whole Phoenix > storyline.' > > Bob Halloran > Sr MTS, Perkin-Elmer DSG As stated in another article in net.comics, I think it highly unlikely that Jean Grey of one universe would become Phoenix through the Phoenix Force and Jean Grey from another would become Phoenix through cosmic radiation, both then become Dark Phoenix, and then both are hunted by the Shi'ar (which in Rachel's world would have no reason to hunt her as fanat- ically as there was no Phoenix). This calls on a little bit too much coincidence. Star-Lord