11-17-2014, 05:17 AM
(11-17-2014, 05:02 AM)Leanne Wrote: The good guy and the bad guy shift, depending on who's telling the story. Michael could have toned his storytelling down a bit and not given the big guy such grand ideas, but sooner or later the gardener outgrows his garden.Yes to this and more even, yes to the parts you didn't bother to say. If it gets anyone to rave a bit, even better. Without free will there really is only 1 and without others you cannot actually be a god but with free will - oh the troubles!
I like the fact that Michael is told that he will disobey and quake with fear -- every hero needs a nemesis to be brought low, and if one is not immediately to hand, one must be fabricated from whatever's convenient. Michael led the armies against Lucifer and won a great victory, but he was too much competition for the capital-G (because he was "like God", after all), so his story was quieted and the enemy's rang out. Do good work, but not too good, because that's a threat to absolute power -- even if you don't want it.
I believe I'm raving a little bit now. I'm ok with that.

