From: "Todd Jensen" <merlyn1.>
Date: Fri Aug 29, 2003 2:09 pm
Subject: Re: [TGS] Re: "The Faery's Child"

<We'd open with `in media res' with a flashback
scene where Goliath and the White Knight are locked in combat in a
dangerous situation and leave that open ended. Then we'd tell
everything that leads up to that point in one set of flashbacks, and
everything that's happening in the present day in the rest.>

Reminds me of both the opening of "Vows" and of "Revelations" in
general. I like it.

<Some of the scenes might include Anastasia and
Renard getting together, and the White Knight approaching Keats.>

I hadn't even thought of Keats personally meeting the White Knight,
but that could work.

- I think it might be best if the White Knight was either French or
his father was French, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the title of
Keats' poem makes it a fairly obvious link. Secondly, it gives a
possible explanation for why Lancelot was able to contact the White
Knight in `Pendragon' with nobody else knowing: Lancelot is the White
Knight's father. This gives the White Knight character a bit of a
better shelf life for a character, and draws in the Illuminati arc a
bit more than it has been otherwise this season.>

Maybe a Norman, if we have him in England; there was a little early
mingling between the Normans and the English before 1066 - it was most
prominent during the reign of Edward the Confessor (who had a lot of Norman
favorites who were unpopular with the English and abused their status as "the
king's favorites" considerably), but Ethelred the Unready (who was King of
England at the time of the Wyvern Massacre and Oberon and Titania's divorce)
had married the daughter of the Duke of Normandy, Emma - who, by the way,
according to some research work that Greg Weisman and I did once, was
also Princess Elena's sister and thus Prince Malcolm's sister-in-law and
Princess Katharine's aunt. He might even have had some connection to the Norman
ambassador in "Vows", although I don't know if he (the ambassador -
whom we named Lamord in "Dark Ages") would still be alive in the 990's.

As for his being Lancelot's son, I'm not entirely certain about that,
but it could be workable. (There'd be a certain appropriateness if he was,
since Lancelot's canonical son, Galahad, has been often nicknamed "the White
Knight", though obviously the forsaken knight should not be Galahad.)

Todd Jensen