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XPhial · 02-17-2003, 03:32 PM

As with most hero quests, the point of the story seems to me to be about the journey rather than about the particular outcome. Not to say that the outcome is unimportant, it's simply less important. It's similar when watching serialized television. I never watched an episode of Star Trek TNG thinking Riker would die at the end, I was more interested in HOW he would get out of the crap he always found himself in. Please, no one kill me for comparing LotR to television, it was just my best analogy at the moment [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

[ February 17, 2003: Message edited by: XPhial ]

02-17-2003, 03:32 PM	#22
XPhial Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Here, there, and everywhere. Posts: 24	As with most hero quests, the point of the story seems to me to be about the journey rather than about the particular outcome. Not to say that the outcome is unimportant, it's simply less important. It's similar when watching serialized television. I never watched an episode of Star Trek TNG thinking Riker would die at the end, I was more interested in HOW he would get out of the crap he always found himself in. Please, no one kill me for comparing LotR to television, it was just my best analogy at the moment [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [ February 17, 2003: Message edited by: XPhial ] __________________ Must we take a life for hateful eyes to glisten once again? For we find ourselves in the same old mess singin' drunken lullabies.