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Aris Katsaris writes...
Regarding the May Day Decree you told me:
<<You're forgetting Moses, which I think is a much more direct parallel. >>
No, actually I wasn't forgetting Moses - but unlike you, I considered his case to be a more indirect parallel. The genocide ordered by the Pharaoh was made for reasons of population control. Both Herod's massacre and the May Day Decree ordered a slaughter so as to find and destroy only *one*, who was feared he would destroy the ruler.
Likewise, Moses is placed on the boat by his mother so as to be saved from the killing. Perseus and Mordred are placed in the boat by the *ruler* (who is also their father or grandfather), so as to be drowned...
Btw, it seemed to me you were avoiding the question? Do you feel that the May Day Decree took place in the Gargoyles Universe? I admit it still sounds to me a very non-Arthurian thing to do...
Greg responds...
Look, I'm not going to tell you now.
But you're missing the appeal of the story. The difference between all the tales we've sighted and the Arthur/Mordred thing.
In all of those tales, it's the evil tyrant who is decreeing the death of children to save his hide.
With Arthur it's the good guy decreeing the death of children in hopes of destroying this great evil. Do the ends justify the means? Of course not. But that great moral dilemma is fascinating.