His Divine Shadow
Whoa, Dalek, that opening paragraph belongs in the prologue of a movie(w/Kai narrating [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img])! I liked HDS because he was so inhuman. I mean, when you battle a human(oid) villain, you have stuff in common; it’s easier to find motivations, drives, weaknesses. But, insects are so utterly NOT human or mammalian in any way. I mean, even birds and fish are easier to savvy than insects. So, to have an insect walking around with all that intelligence and power, in human form, just brings the creep factor up to ten for me.
I thought Mantrid and HDS had a lackey-overlord relationship; he was a bio-vizier who worked for HDS. But, obviously he was a dangerous bio-vizier, since HDS exiled him. He was probably too dangerous to have full autonomy but too useful to destroy. Mantrid’s getting the essence seemed to be a simple mistake caused by Vigo’s not really knowing how to transfer Mantrid’s essence into the vessel. Is His Divine Creepiness still about? I sincerely hope so.
The nature of HDS and the Insect civilization are a mystery I hope the Beans will clear up someday; hopefully, in a stunning full length retrospective of the Insect Wars!(hey, if Lucas can do it, why not the Beans? [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img]) It just seems that so much emphasis was placed on the cycles of time and Kai’s destroying the insect civilization, that a simple boot crush, while ironic, was pretty anticlimactic.
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“Time begins then time ends, and then time begins once again.”