Christopher said:
Elemental said:
I first want to again express my enjoyment of this book, but I have to admit that I wasn't initially thrilled with how the scenes in which we see the Talosians in The Cage were pretty well rewritten as making them more friendly than they were initially presented. An example would be of how the scene when Vina is pulled away screaming "Don't punish me!" is re-imagined as her screaming that simply to make Pike feel sympathy when in fact the Talosians were not hurting her at all. I was left a little curious as to why the need was felt to change things like this. Was it for the purpose of making them seem less evil so that leaving Vina behind with them at the end of The Cage doesn't seem like such a harsh thing to do?
I think it's a necessary retcon in light of "The Menagerie," to explain why the Talosians who seemed so menacing in "The Cage" were suddenly Pike's benevolent rescuers in the later 2-parter. "Menagerie" presented its ending as a happy one, and that in itself implied that the Talosians weren't all that bad. I figure Margaret was just following that lead and reconciling the two stories.
