FORKNI-L
Digest - 25 Oct 2013 to 26 Oct 2013 (#2013-165)
Sat, 26 Oct 2013
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Topics of the day:
1. Discussing "Dying to Know You" and history
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:26:59 -0700
From: Andrew Caruthers <slinter@j.......>
Subject: Re: Discussing "Dying to Know You" and history
Well, my study of history tells me that this is often the case.
Suppose Alexander the Great's nurse had stumbled, and dropped him down
the stairs as a baby. The world would be vastly different today. Suppose
Chin Shi Wan was killed in battle, and China was never united? Of course,
I also despise Cromwell, so LaCroix and Janette sharing a Sandwich
l'Puritan would, in all, have made for a better future, IMNSHO.
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:14:05 -0400 Greer Watson <gwatson2@r.......>
writes:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2013, Andrew said:
>
> > Too bad Nick and LaCroix couldn't have had Cromwell
> > over for a little snack. :D
>
> Hah! I see you subscribe to the theory that one man can alter history.
> Well, I'm not so sure about Cromwell: he was a brilliant general, of
> course, but not the only one on the Parliamentarian side; and there were
> certainly a lot of reasons to dislike King Charles. Not that history would
> have been the *same* if Cromwell had been taken out. Still, it's a bit like
> saying that, if LaCroix had snacked on General Washington, there wouldn't
> have been an American Revolution.
>
> On the other hand, the potential influence of vampiric action (or inaction)
> on history *does* come up in other episodes in Forever Knight. Perhaps it
> resonates most in "Jane Doe". While a vampire Hitler is an appalling
> thought, the idea that Nick and LaCroix met him as the Great War ended does
> raise the *other* possibility: what if they'd had *him* for a snack?
>
> I mean, we know that LaCroix didn't bring Hitler across because his evil was
> too great even for LaCroix to stomach; but ... what if he'd *killed* him,
> instead of simply leaving him mortal? Or what if Nick had decided Hitler
> was best removed from the world?
>
> In FK, the screenwriters always steered the outcome of the flashback to fit
> history. Still, you can't help but see that AU possibilities abound.
>
>
> Greer
>
> gwatson2@r.......
> http://www.foreverknight.org/FK4/
>
> >
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