11-17-2014, 05:02 AM
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.
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.
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.
It could be worse