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Current Talk '03 II / Re:How Did Angelique Get Her Powers?
« on: November 03, 2003, 10:07:08 PM »
Well, Vlad, last time I watched the episodes that involved the first spell we see Ange casting--on Barn's Rev War toy soldier--I'm afraid I laughed when the poor dear couldn't get the knot undone when she was trying to reverse the spell.
Tying knots is very much Craft 101. Then there's her notorious difficulty with Basic Banishment. She raises a ghost (Jeremiah) to perform a simple task and then can't rid of him? In her defense, the ghost eventually goes away when the writers can't think of what to do next with him, but it reflects very badly on her skill level at this point.
I actually think it makes the story more interesting when Ange is barely competent and you see her trying hard to learn from her own mistakes. Later on, when she becomes "Super Witch," it's not so interesting. Of course, even at the height of her powers on the show, she was never capable of pulling some of the feats ascribed to her by some fan writers, such as the role Warren Oddson gives her in his articles in the DS Concordances published by Kathleen Resch.
In 1968, Cassandra seems a lot more powerful, confident, and assured in her Craft than 1795 did. Her problem then is her tendency to indulge her own sadism--watch 'em twist in the wind when she could be getting the job done. That is what leads to her eventual downfall, although it could be argued as well that the Dream Curse was an unnecessarily clumsy, over-involved piece of spellcraft. It's hard to tell with that whether she was motivated by the desire to see people like Maggie and Mrs. Johnson suffer on the way to achieving her goal, or whether she simply did not know any better, quicker way of getting the job done.
G.
Tying knots is very much Craft 101. Then there's her notorious difficulty with Basic Banishment. She raises a ghost (Jeremiah) to perform a simple task and then can't rid of him? In her defense, the ghost eventually goes away when the writers can't think of what to do next with him, but it reflects very badly on her skill level at this point.
I actually think it makes the story more interesting when Ange is barely competent and you see her trying hard to learn from her own mistakes. Later on, when she becomes "Super Witch," it's not so interesting. Of course, even at the height of her powers on the show, she was never capable of pulling some of the feats ascribed to her by some fan writers, such as the role Warren Oddson gives her in his articles in the DS Concordances published by Kathleen Resch.
In 1968, Cassandra seems a lot more powerful, confident, and assured in her Craft than 1795 did. Her problem then is her tendency to indulge her own sadism--watch 'em twist in the wind when she could be getting the job done. That is what leads to her eventual downfall, although it could be argued as well that the Dream Curse was an unnecessarily clumsy, over-involved piece of spellcraft. It's hard to tell with that whether she was motivated by the desire to see people like Maggie and Mrs. Johnson suffer on the way to achieving her goal, or whether she simply did not know any better, quicker way of getting the job done.
G.
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