Humans vs Mythic Entities it is.
Jan. 16th, 2012 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lightcastleFollowing up on my previous post, we seem to be treading the path of Humans vs Powers, as we have the 49ers vs Giants on one side and the Patriots vs Ravens on the others.
Unfortunately, neither of those is a particularly interesting version of that. With the fall of the Saints, the most interesting finale for that story has been removed. Still, we must work with what we have.
Assuming we maintain that story arc, then our two options are 49ers vs Ravens and Giants vs Patriots. Neither is particularly compelling, although the former at least gives us hardscrabble frontierfolk vs Trickster or Death, which isn't too bad. (In terms of real-life story, Giants/Patriots is better given the two teams haven't been back to the Super Bowl since the Giants won, dashing the Patriot's hopes of a perfect season. So that works as a rematch story.)
The human/human option is ok - 49ers vs Patriots at least gives us archetypes from each coast and from different centuries as a rivalry.
If we let ourselves go myth/myth, however, we get Giants/Ravens. You can do that as straight up Norse myth if you want to take the Ravens as symbols of Odin, and Trickster vs Ancient Power is one of the classic recurring themes in multiple cultures. Clearly, that's what we have to root for.
Unfortunately, neither of those is a particularly interesting version of that. With the fall of the Saints, the most interesting finale for that story has been removed. Still, we must work with what we have.
Assuming we maintain that story arc, then our two options are 49ers vs Ravens and Giants vs Patriots. Neither is particularly compelling, although the former at least gives us hardscrabble frontierfolk vs Trickster or Death, which isn't too bad. (In terms of real-life story, Giants/Patriots is better given the two teams haven't been back to the Super Bowl since the Giants won, dashing the Patriot's hopes of a perfect season. So that works as a rematch story.)
The human/human option is ok - 49ers vs Patriots at least gives us archetypes from each coast and from different centuries as a rivalry.
If we let ourselves go myth/myth, however, we get Giants/Ravens. You can do that as straight up Norse myth if you want to take the Ravens as symbols of Odin, and Trickster vs Ancient Power is one of the classic recurring themes in multiple cultures. Clearly, that's what we have to root for.
