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From: kayuucee@cvl.UUCP (Kenneth W. Crist Jr.)
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Subject: Re: Re: Jean Grey
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 16:13:36 EST
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> 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