dixonm@pobox.com wrote: : Suppose that the series 2 B7 crew suddenly finds themselves brought before : the Council of Elrond. (Okay, if you must know *how*, assume some high-level : intervention by the Valar, or maybe even Eru. And if the Liberator's in orbit : around Middle Earth, assume the teleport's on the blink as usual -- otherwise : it's all too easy.) Elrond explains the problem and asks Blake's Seven to : take the Ring to Mount Doom.
: So -- who's the Ringbearer? How do they get across Zirak-Zigel, or into and : through Moria? Do they, in fact, manage to destroy the Ring? Do they live : through it?
Interesting question.
The obvious choice is Blake. But I think Blake has too much of an agenda. It's a *good* agenda, but it's enough of one that I feel he would be tempted to use the ring.
(Avon, Vila, Cally, Jenna... none of them say Ringbearer to me.)
The less-obvious one is Gan. I think what made the hobbits, and Frodo in particular, strong enough, is that they didn't want to change things. They wanted to save their home as they knew it. Which, it turned out, involved having to Do Stuff. I can see Gan in the same sort of role. He doesn't have a big political agenda (though he isn't displeased with Blake's). He needs people because of the implant, yes, but he also seems to have a straightforward kindness to him.
Tarrant (and he's far from my favorite character) is the one who I think comes closest to destroying the ring in his actions on the show, when he knows that putting the head on the android in Headhunter isn't enough-- it must be destroyed. But again he may have too much of a persona agenda, too much of a way for the Ring to tempt him.
Claudia