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Todd Jensen writes...
Just read your reply to my comments on your "Hercules" episode and your rambling in general about Theseus and the Bastard role. I very much enjoyed reading it.
I found your comments on Mary Stewart and Mary Renault interesting, since I recently read "The King Must Die" after you spoke highly of it in the Station 8 Comment Room a while back, very much enjoyed it, and found that it reminded me in its general tone of Stewart's Merlin trilogy, in that it similarly successfully produced a version of the legend that was rationalized and yet retained a strong sense of wonder and awe. I could actually believe with Renault's Theseus, as with Stewart's Arthur and Merlin, that these events really could have inspired a legend that would last for thousands of years.
BTW, I found your comments on Luach's parentage interesting, since I was aware of how, in actual history, he was supposed to be Gillecomgain's son. I personally couldn't help but think that, if Gillecomgain actually was Luach's father, then it was ironic that Luach was the one supporting Demona in Macbeth's council in 1057.
Greg responds...
Me too. I loved that irony. It was impossible to play all of it in City of Stone. The thing was so crowded as it was. And the whole implication of adultery between Macbeth and Gruoch had to be so sub-surface as to be non-existence. So for the general audience, I allowed the simple interpretation that Macbeth was Luach's father and that he was conceived and born AFTER Mac and Gru were wed.
But I very consciously didn't contradict the actual history or the GOSSIP. So anyone who did more research would get a little added bonus.
Working stories on multiple levels gives me pleasure. And, I believe, makes for better television.