From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V5 #198 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Saturday, August 6 2005 Volume 05 : Number 198 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [chakram-refugees] Re: Amarice the Amazon [cr ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 09:59:42 +1200 From: cr Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Re: Amarice the Amazon On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 14:58, IfeRae@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 8/3/2005 12:23:54 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > > cr@orcon.net.nz writes: > > Yes - in fact I think that thing about Amarice not being a genuine Amazon > > was > > just a plot device so Gabrielle could do that. That really was 'out of > > the > > > > blue' - there was never any reason before that to doubt Amarice. I > > would much rather the writers had found some other way to let Gabs > > demonstrate her moral enlightenment. > > Actually, I thought they gave quite a few clues -- especially Xena's > cryptic looks whenever Amarice said "In my tribe." No, that wasn't doubt about Amarice's tribe, that was disagreement with Amarice's statements. > Even Brutus cast doubt > on her actual experiences as a member of a warrior tribe. Except for > renegades like Velesca, Amazons seemed pretty good about obeying the > command structure, which seemed foreign to Amarice. Too independent for an Amazon? Where does that leave Gabs, then? Renegades like Velasca the Amazon Queen? And Ephiny - Ephiny seemed to have a mind of her own, too. I think one could generalise and say that a good obedient Amazon didn't have what it took to make an Amazon Queen. A Queen needed more determination and initiative. Hmmm... Amarice would have made a good one, with a little more experience. > I certainly felt from > the beginning that Amarice pretended to be a lot more than she was, perhaps > flitted from tribe to tribe without really belonging to one. I figured > Ephiny's folks adopted her without too much question. > > -- Ife Well, either you like her or you don't. I liked her. And Ephiny - obviously Ephiny saw a lot of potential in her. And don't forget - so did Xena. cr ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V5 #198 **************************************