On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:14:47 -0800 (PST) "Penberriss Wendy S." penberriss@yahoo.com writes:
No, sorry Neil but Deliverance is far more misogynistic than Power. In Deliverance Meegat is totally subservient to Lord Avon.
Er, yes, but (sorry, multiple points follow) 1) We have no evidence that Meegat's priestess position _had_ to be filled by a woman. It could have just as well have been a man doing the groveling bit. We're given no reason to believe _gender_ is necessary for her job (although a case could be made for young and healthy). 2) Given some of the historical cases Meegat's worship was probably based on (Montezuma and Cortez, Hawaiians and Cook [sort of]) her behavior is based on male precedents. 3) Meegat, being presented with three men, picks a man. We don't know that she wouldn't have picked Jenna (who, with her piloting experience, may have been more qualified to get the rocket launched). 4) Meegat's use of what are male nouns and pronouns do not necessarily argue against this since arguments could be made about what constitutes a neuter form in her language/dialect and how that would translate in general or in this case specifically.
She's incapable of
launching the rocket herself
It seems safe to assume Meegat's people had some males among them, none of whom were rocket scientists.
and requires a man to do
it.
No, she requires a rocket scientist - or pilot, or engineer, or whizzo computer freak.
The rocket is nothing more than a crude metaphor
Er, it's just possible the rocket looked like a rocket because that's what rockets look like, isn't it? I don't recall Freud being hired as a consultant for NASA.
and once the gene bank is launched Avon leaves her, to die presumably.
I grant you that Avon is suffering radiation poisoning and that quickly leaving and getting the needed medicine must rank pretty high so, no, I don't think he hung around too long after. I also admit that I like to think the Liberator came back later and offered to take her and her people to another planet (if the Mayflower could handle that many people for months, I'm sure the Liberator could handle it for a few days). Since the Liberator had faster than light capacity, it could conceivably have dropped them off on the planet the rocket was heading for, giving Meegat and her people a new prophecy to await the fulfillment of and filling that void in her life.
As for Cally and Ensor Jr, I love the look on her face when he holds the gun to her head, a sort of, "Not another one of _these_ idiots" look. Although, it would have been fun to have Blake being held at gunpoint and Ensor having to negotiate with someone with that attitude.
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