Mind you, I like the term "liminal" in general. In my Glorantha, lots of Heroquests/rituals are like that - a foot in both worlds - especially the ones you stumble into.
And, as a patch job for having to do "something" with the Opera House before the show ends, that wasn't a bad solution. LC
roko_joko wrote:
>
> In the series finale of Battlestar Galactica (light spoiler follows)
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> I liked the scene where the characters flip back and forth between the
> space
> ship and the opera house. It was a cool illustration of a liminal
> heroquest
> where the participants are simultaneously in the regular world and on the
> other side in a mysterious way.
>
> "Liminal heroquest", or whatever the lingo is now. My emphasis here is not
> on the fine points of Gloranthan magic. If you buy that Glorantha has some
> ceremonies where you go into some kind of a halfway state, that's what I'm
> talking about.
>
> Granted the show had some ambiguity as to whether the characters were
> actually experiencing the back-and-forth in the moment, or whether it was
> more of a flashback from a narrator's point of view. But some of the
> editing and some of the characters' gestures and expressions point you to
> the in-the-moment interpretation.
>
> So now, if you need to explain the liminal aspect of heroquesting to
> someone, you can use that episode as an illustration that a lot of people
> will be familiar with.
>
>
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