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Re: Factions
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lugnet.castle
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Sun, 22 Jul 2001 16:40:18 GMT
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> Lego seems to be portraying them as rebels. ("Rebel Chariot", etc). Rebels
> are not inherently evil.. or are you getting the "evil" element from their
> facial features, etc? But then being ugly makes them evil?
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> Something about this cut-and-dry evil vs. good thing bothers me. Maybe it's
> just the way I'm remembering it, but it seems to me back in the Black
> Falcon/Crusader days, neither faction was portrayed as good or evil, leaving
> interpretation open to the real-world where it's never quite so simple and
> good or evil depends who's side you're on or who wrote the textbooks...
One place Lego seems to be heavily implying that the Bulls are evil is on
their flash website story part. One time I looked it over and they pretty
much come out and say "King Leo and family are great, and would be in
paradise if it weren't for the bad old Cedric the Bull. He won't rest until
he steals the kingdom from Leo" or something like that. Every soldier of
Leo (invariably Richard the Strong....cloning? :) is described as good and
just and the Bull's soldiers are less than that. The part that gets me is
that in the Royal Joust, the Bulls show up to play too....The box or site
describes it as Cedric wanting to make Leo's guys look bad, but if I am
"evil" Cedric, the joust is when I show up with my whole army and take Leo
and his kingdom. Oh well.
I agree that Lego must have been trying to not take sides during the good
factions days, but I can tell you as a Falcon fan every box with them is
them fighting seems like. Also "Black" Falcon and "Black" Monarch seem to
ring of evil too. Not the color so much as the mental image. I think Lego
likes the Lions best and there you go. My Dragons and Falcons are not evil
though!
Jason
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| (...) Lego seems to be portraying them as rebels. ("Rebel Chariot", etc). Rebels are not inherently evil.. or are you getting the "evil" element from their facial features, etc? But then being ugly makes them evil? Something about this cut-and-dry (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jul-01, to lugnet.castle)
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