If you had to date one person in Odyssey who would it be????

Joni_Slade · Post by **Joni_Slade** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:24 am

Haha, yes, you are not crazy and I would totally date Richard Maxwell if he existed. (Slight annoyance that he doesn't.) I don't see anything working out between him and Lucy. I like both of their characters, but they're just too different. I don't see how Lucy could ever understand Richard's problems while her faith gives her such a quiet resilience. She always showed very little patience with people less, well, Good, than she was (like Curt, Isaac, or even Sam). And I think that Richard would have trouble seeing her as a real person when she is such a symbol to him of an innocence he's lost in his own life and a forgiveness he has trouble accepting. I do love their interactions on the show just because of this disconnect between them. (I know I am way over-analyzing things, but that's sort of what I do.)

But I'm all for you writing fan fiction about them!

Rachael Blackgaard · Post by **Rachael Blackgaard** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 5:46 pm

^^But that's what makes them perfect for each other! Because Lucy would have to become a little less prideful about people who struggle a little more than she does and Richard would have to accept his forgiveness. I think Richard would be delighted to have Lucy, though. He's obviously delighted and enamored by her innocence. And a little tension is good for a relationship.

haha, you only have slight annoyance over Richard not existing? You should have seen me banging my head against a wall the many, many times whenever I would realize that Regis wasn't real! ;-)

Joni_Slade · Post by **Joni_Slade** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 11:12 pm

^^Hmm. Yeah, I guess their relationship has a certain literary and thematic potential. I love it for what it is, two people who have a lot to learn from each other. But I don't think romance would be very realistic. Lucy changing enough to accept people's imperfections would mean shedding some of the very innocence that Richard admires about her. And I don't think Richard likes her as much as what she represents to him, so the whole relationship would be sort of convoluted and unhealthy. And I think Richard would have some real moral objections to a romantic relationship with her even once she's older simply because of their past. I don't think he's capable of accepting her forgiveness (at least not until he's had a whole lot more plot happen to him). And, honestly, I think Lucy has moved on, too.

Awww. It's taken me a long time to reach the slight annoyance phase. We should start like a support group or something, huh? :)

Carolita · Post by **Carolita** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:01 am

*laughs at the absurdity of the question*

I'd probably date either, Jimmy, Jared (so I could throw flour on him, of course

) or "Digger" Digwillow.

Rachael Blackgaard · Post by **Rachael Blackgaard** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:13 pm

Joni_Slade wrote:^^Hmm. Yeah, I guess their relationship has a certain literary and thematic potential. I love it for what it is, two people who have a lot to learn from each other. But I don't think romance would be very realistic. Lucy changing enough to accept people's imperfections would mean shedding some of the very innocence that Richard admires about her. And I don't think Richard likes her as much as what she represents to him, so the whole relationship would be sort of convoluted and unhealthy. And I think Richard would have some real moral objections to a romantic relationship with her even once she's older simply because of their past. I don't think he's capable of accepting her forgiveness (at least not until he's had a whole lot more plot happen to him). And, honestly, I think Lucy has moved on, too.

Awww. It's taken me a long time to reach the slight annoyance phase. We should start like a support group or something, huh? :)

Admirers of the Immaterialistic... Stalkers of the Unreal... Wives of Fictional Antagonists Anonymous...

I think it could work. For some reason, it almost seemed like that's what the writers WANTED us to think. (Although I must admit, I found Richard manipulating Lucy as a little girl more than a little creepy.) So I think it might work, but something drastic would have to happen.

Joni_Slade · Post by **Joni_Slade** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 4:06 pm

Rachael wrote:Wives of Fictional Antagonists Anonymous

*laughs madly* That's awesome. "Salkers of the Unreal" might be better since it's a little more general, though. I'm seriously enamored with a number of fictional characters.

Rachael wrote:I found Richard manipulating Lucy as a little girl more than a little creepy

It was seriously creepy. (The redeeming bit of it was that in the end Richard himself found it creepy, too.) Which is why I don't like the idea of anything coming of it. Something drastic happening could make it work; I'd just rather it didn't. I've never considered what the writers wanted us to think, though . . . hmm . . .

Rachael Blackgaard · Post by **Rachael Blackgaard** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:09 pm

It reminded me way too much of what could have happened between Richard and Lucy, and that's what creeped me out. If the age difference hadn't been so drastic, it wouldn't have been so bad.

How about the LFAA? Lovers of Fictional Antagonists Anonymous?

Joni_Slade · Post by **Joni_Slade** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 7:46 pm

^^Yeah. Fortunately, Richard's character prevented anything that bad from happening. Well, that and the nature of AIO as a kid's show :)

I love LFAA! Perfect.

Chandler · Post by **Chandler** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:29 pm

Rachael wrote:It reminded me way too much of what could have happened between Richard and Lucy, and that's what creeped me out. If the age difference hadn't been so drastic, it wouldn't have been so bad.

I hadn't ever gotten that far in my thinking until your story from the first AIO writing contest. That bothered me because it made me see things in a new light.

Rachael Blackgaard · Post by **Rachael Blackgaard** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:34 am

I don't even remember my entry from the first writing contest. Was that the one where Regis kidnaps Connie again? Or was it the one where Richard has a girlfriend and gets kidnapped? I think I just sat at my computer and wrote it into the 'message' window in my PM box one day. Will you PM it to me?

EvangelineWalker · Post by **EvangelineWalker** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 2:18 pm

Jason

EUCC · Post by **EUCC** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:26 pm

EvangelineWalker wrote:Jason

That was the first guy I thought of too. But I dont know about travelling all the time. I guess it's a little irrelevant.

the_newfie_haystack · Post by **the_newfie_haystack** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:27 pm

Wow, nobody's mentoined my fave guy yet. I would do Xavier Washington because he is so cool! $\:D/$ GO XAVIER!!!

Haystack

Joni_Slade · Post by **Joni_Slade** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:24 am

Xavier is definitely cool. I'd like to hear more from him.

the_newfie_haystack · Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:36 am

Are they planning to do any more episodes on Xavier? I hope so!

Haystack

AIOaddict1988 · Post by **AIOaddict1988** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 7:48 pm

Joni_Slade wrote: It was seriously creepy. (The redeeming bit of it was that in the end Richard himself found it creepy, too.) Which is why I don't like the idea of anything coming of it. Something drastic happening could make it work; I'd just rather it didn't. I've never considered what the writers wanted us to think, though . . . hmm . . .

What made it so disgusingly creepy to me was I always envisioned Lucy to be in her early teens, 14 or 15, and Richard always struck me as at least 25 or 30. I don't know what state you live in, and what state Oddysey is in, but that is some serious pedophilia right there, and I know that's pretty illeagle in the state I live in...

Joni_Slade · Post by **Joni_Slade** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:14 pm

the_newfie_haystack wrote:Are they planning to do any more episodes on Xavier?

I don't know, but I hope so, too!

I always envisioned Lucy to be in her early teens, 14 or 15, and Richard always struck me as at least 25 or 30

Wow, really? I got a very different impression. I thought Lucy was, like, no older than 12. Blackgaard calls Richard a "teenaged thug", so I imagine he was 18 or 19. And like . . . he was hired to get information from Lucy. Paedophilia was not involved, regardless of their ages. But I agree it was creepy, and perhaps the creepiness is what makes me averse to the idea of them getting together even when they're older and the age difference doesn't matter so much. I prefer to believe that Richard considered Lucy first a means to an end, and later an admired example of innocence and forgiveness. Nothing much more.

Danielle Abigail Maxwell · Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:40 pm

I believed Richard was 17 or 18 because,well,I don't know the rules of Ohio,that is where people say Odyssey is at,he goes to a detention center,not an actual like prison,but how am I supposed to know,I am 13!!!!!!I am only in Elementary school still,Well almost to high school after this year of school,but that doesn't matter!

Arwen · Post by **Arwen** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:45 pm

Jason, or Richard, probably...of course, they're too old, and I don't date, but if Odyssey actually existed, who knows what else could happen!

Rachael Blackgaard · Post by **Rachael Blackgaard** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:09 pm

I'm going to join the popular group that thinks Lucy was 12 or younger and Richard was somewhere in his late teens. :-D She still went to Odyssey Middle School, and Richard went to a detention center... I don't see how they could be any older than that.

And a 15 going out with a 25-year-old isn't all THAT creepy to me... yeah, I mean, 17 or 18 would be much more preferable, but (in my fanfics) Regis was in his late forties when he met and married Rachael-- who was only 19 at the time.

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