ST> ST> Talking about losses, is anybody here old enough to have read th
ST> ST> X-Men that led up to the death of the original Jean Grey/Phoenix
ST> ST> strike you as a little strange, not to mention cruel, that they 
ST> ST> character with SOOOO much potential, made her into a monster, an
ST> ST> killed her off?
ST> ST>  
ST> ST> The original Phoenix was the embodiment of characters like the W
ST> ST> Silver Surfer, Ego, Thor and such, in a female vessel....before 
ST> ST> into Dark Phoenix, she saved the universe, defeated the evil sid
ST> ST> Shi'ar Empire, and did quite a few other things that proved quit
ST> ST> her six or seven year tenure. Why would you kill off such a GREA
ST> ST> and plot device?!
ST> PH>  
ST> PH> Originally, they weren't going to kill her... just completely de
ST> PH> her after the events of the Dark Phoenix Saga.  Jim Shooter felt
ST> PH> this was a cop-out (she had murdered billions of sentient beings
ST> PH> all), and had Claremont & Byrne change the ending.
ST>  
ST> Don't you HATE corporate decisions....?
 
Not in this case... in fact, this is one of the few times I've agreed 
with one of Shooter's editiorial decisions.  The original planned 
ending *was* a cop-out, and the revised ending was much more powerful, 
and moving, IMO.
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