🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3bjekl$7...@news.duke.edu>, j...@acpub.duke.edu (Jeffrey John Naumowit
z) writes:
>
>The Hermit (s010...@cc.ysu.edu) wrote:
>
>:      It seems to me that there is one question posed by U8 that really
>: _must_ be answered in U9.  In the intro, we see the Guardian holding the
>: Avatar in the palm of his hand.  Why doesn't he just crush the Avatar right
>: there?  Or, alternatively, drop him onto a planet with no atmosphere?
>: Obviously, the designers didn't want the Avatar to die; the sales of U8 would
>: have been truly pathetic.  But I feel that they, if this will be the
>: Guardian's final appearance, must settle this once and for all.
>:
>:      To understand this, we must also find out who the Guardian
>: really is.  While he seems bent on conquering worlds, why is he doing it?
>: I read an interview with Richard Garriot in Ultima: The Avatar Adventures
>: suggesting that the Guardian was some member of a race of superbeings from
>: another dimension.  As a story element, not only is this out of tune with
>: the series, but it isn't even very good, IMHO.
>
>:      Also, I have heard that U9 or U10 will be the last of the series.
>: If this is true, it would seem fitting to return to the series' origin.
>: Why not make the Guardian the reincarnated form of Mondain?  Gives the
>: character a fitting history, suppplies his motives, and could possibly
>: explain (drawing from U6) his reluctance to kill the Avatar.  As has been
>: pointed out before, fallout from U1 has permeated the entire series.  I think
>: that this could make for a better conclusion than "go out and kill the big
>: evil superbeing".  It would be interesting if you could achieve the final
>: victory in a way befitting the Avatar.
>
>Nah, I don't like it.  It doesn't seem right to make him Mondain.  This
>is not a soap opera.
>
Besides, we've turned his skull to ashes (u4) and seen him safely ensconced in
a statue (u6 and u7). Face it; he ain't coming back.

bye.
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