Fannish Five: Five Favourite Action/Fight Sequences

[selenak]

From penknife, while I'm busy savouring all the great fanfiction produced by the 1602ficathon

Five Favourite Action/Fight Sequences:

1) The Anakin/Obi-Wan duel from Revenge of the Sith. This was probably one of the most anticipated scenes of all time, and even if you don't like the prequels, you have to admit Lucas did deliver. If you do like the prequels, as in

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The problem with Xavier

[alara_r]

On the metalevel, Xavier being a physical cripple is important to the character. But on the internal story level it makes no sense. You have characters who heal people, his girlfriend is the Empress of a culture that has the technology to make clones and to force-grow people to adulthood, you have all kinds of advanced technology and cybernetics running around, so why can't anyone fix Xavier's back? It's not like it's crippled because of weird science; currently it's just snapped (the earlier time, it had been crushed, so he had sensation in it but could not walk.)

You can explain why no one can fix Rogue's powers or Cyclops' eyes because those are mutant things, and mutant stuff can't always fix mutant stuff. But mutant stuff has a good track record for fixing *mundane* problems. So in-story, it gets harder and harder to believe that no one can heal Xavier.

What Claremont did with healing Xavier was brilliant at first. Xavier was cured with a new cloned body (it was necessary, his old one had been taken over by the Brood). But first he had to overcome psychosomatic pain when he tried to walk. Then he totally screwed up Scott and Ororo's authority by trying to go out in the field with them, taking over as leader, and being *bad* at it. Then, however, Claremont couldn't figure out where to take Xavier's plot arc, so he first injured him very badly to explain why Xavier didn't keep going out and screwing things up, and then shipped him off to outer space.

In the movies it's different -- the technology level is not nearly so advanced, so it's easy to believe Xavier's back simply cannot be fixed. But in a world where people can be turned into demon bears and then back again, it isn't easy to keep a character crippled in a mundane way.