Kurt & Amanda rekindling an old flame
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 5:35 pm
By the looks of it Amanda and Kurt are going to be reunited soon. While things went wrong, really wrong when she became 'Daytripper' - that wasn't CC's mistake. Claremont's Amanda was a whole different person and her relationship with Kurt was a BIG part of what defined our man.
I'm by no means indifferent to an Amanda/Kurt romantic adventure if CC's the guy doing the writing - it could be amazing.
Let's just say there never was a Daytripper..give that the namesake one way one ticket yea...yea into oblivion.
But how about a Jimaine Szardos - how about this: Since CC says Kurt's coming back, in part with his faith proven and strong...since CC also says Kurt's going to have a moment of reckoning in which he faces the question "I've died once, will I have to keep doing this until I get it right?"...how about this
The 'good' Kurt and Amanda relationship ended in UXM 204 - and after that comic it was never the same...the rift was caused by Amanda being shunned by Kurt who had become overwhelmed by personal struggles: his conflict of faith after the Beyonder escapade...his feelings of displacement and failure as temporary leader of the x-men, new tormenting questions raised about his past by Mystique, not to mention getting his ass-kicked repeatedly through a sequence of brash mistakes made in battle (all of this decent in his darkest despair culminates in his near suicidal leap into Riptide and a 'well-earned' coma - and the fall rises to redemption with the birth of a Exaclibur and Kurt as it's swashbuckling bright star)!
So CC now sets the stage for something awesome! Maybe? We'll see...
His faith new and strong. His 'family' still not realized - not the X-Men, not his blood-line...none of it...
So what's there to invest that faith in?
What's there to answer the question of purpose?
Love. Love that's an island unto itself...the motivator to buckle swashes...to plunge into the impossible odds of the post-schism, post AvX, Wolvie's gonna die X-Universe!
I believe that this Amanda/Kurt relationship could be an incredible way to 'complete' some of the unfinished stuff CC left hanging way back then...it'd make for a wide arc...but a satisfying one. Plus, there's Magik...the Soulsword...and I love all that...even the Pixie stuff. Bringing in Amanda could be amazing! Kurt kicks ass when he's fighting demons, sword in hand...(it's way better than when he's 'saving souls' in the vestments - same deal, but way better.
Oh man... when UXM 204 came out it broke my heart...it just, well, it was painful after all Kurt had been through to see him fall so hard...and i could feel that the worst was yet to come...(but this scene juxtaposes perfectly with a scene from Excalibur in which Kurt confronts Brian Braddock who is drunk tormented and rapt in despair - Kurt tosses him in the water - tells him to be a man, to take hold of life and love - to me this was one of the best ingenious full circles of CC's writing)
Thoughts? The jury's still out. It seems like a lot of folks find Amanda a drain on Kurt...and have been unhappy about seeing her previewed as part of CC's Nightcrawler.
But to me... it's potentially soooo right! Potentially soooo perfect!
The worst would be to pretend that Kurt doesn't have a history...doesn't have bonds and business that stretch beyond those he's got with the X-Men. There are some characters in the X-books who belong 'just' in those books...others that need X as a cornerstone for the greater constructs of their stories. Remy, Illyana, Wolvie, Psylocke (she desreves more than she's gotten), Storm (when CC wrote her) and especially Kurt are all examples of X-Men who are invested in personal sagas and stories that can't be contained within the serialized super-opera of X.
Amanda and Kurt is one of those pathways the winds away from the X-Men and into otherworlds, other emotional landscapes and into the individual soul of my favorite hero...not just favorite X-Men...favorite hero.
I'm by no means indifferent to an Amanda/Kurt romantic adventure if CC's the guy doing the writing - it could be amazing.
Let's just say there never was a Daytripper..give that the namesake one way one ticket yea...yea into oblivion.
But how about a Jimaine Szardos - how about this: Since CC says Kurt's coming back, in part with his faith proven and strong...since CC also says Kurt's going to have a moment of reckoning in which he faces the question "I've died once, will I have to keep doing this until I get it right?"...how about this
The 'good' Kurt and Amanda relationship ended in UXM 204 - and after that comic it was never the same...the rift was caused by Amanda being shunned by Kurt who had become overwhelmed by personal struggles: his conflict of faith after the Beyonder escapade...his feelings of displacement and failure as temporary leader of the x-men, new tormenting questions raised about his past by Mystique, not to mention getting his ass-kicked repeatedly through a sequence of brash mistakes made in battle (all of this decent in his darkest despair culminates in his near suicidal leap into Riptide and a 'well-earned' coma - and the fall rises to redemption with the birth of a Exaclibur and Kurt as it's swashbuckling bright star)!
So CC now sets the stage for something awesome! Maybe? We'll see...
His faith new and strong. His 'family' still not realized - not the X-Men, not his blood-line...none of it...
So what's there to invest that faith in?
What's there to answer the question of purpose?
Love. Love that's an island unto itself...the motivator to buckle swashes...to plunge into the impossible odds of the post-schism, post AvX, Wolvie's gonna die X-Universe!
I believe that this Amanda/Kurt relationship could be an incredible way to 'complete' some of the unfinished stuff CC left hanging way back then...it'd make for a wide arc...but a satisfying one. Plus, there's Magik...the Soulsword...and I love all that...even the Pixie stuff. Bringing in Amanda could be amazing! Kurt kicks ass when he's fighting demons, sword in hand...(it's way better than when he's 'saving souls' in the vestments - same deal, but way better.
Oh man... when UXM 204 came out it broke my heart...it just, well, it was painful after all Kurt had been through to see him fall so hard...and i could feel that the worst was yet to come...(but this scene juxtaposes perfectly with a scene from Excalibur in which Kurt confronts Brian Braddock who is drunk tormented and rapt in despair - Kurt tosses him in the water - tells him to be a man, to take hold of life and love - to me this was one of the best ingenious full circles of CC's writing)
Thoughts? The jury's still out. It seems like a lot of folks find Amanda a drain on Kurt...and have been unhappy about seeing her previewed as part of CC's Nightcrawler.
But to me... it's potentially soooo right! Potentially soooo perfect!
The worst would be to pretend that Kurt doesn't have a history...doesn't have bonds and business that stretch beyond those he's got with the X-Men. There are some characters in the X-books who belong 'just' in those books...others that need X as a cornerstone for the greater constructs of their stories. Remy, Illyana, Wolvie, Psylocke (she desreves more than she's gotten), Storm (when CC wrote her) and especially Kurt are all examples of X-Men who are invested in personal sagas and stories that can't be contained within the serialized super-opera of X.
Amanda and Kurt is one of those pathways the winds away from the X-Men and into otherworlds, other emotional landscapes and into the individual soul of my favorite hero...not just favorite X-Men...favorite hero.