Subject: Re: What would they do From: janeh@erols.com (jane m harmon) Date: 1996/08/17 Message-Id: Newsgroups: alt.tv.space-a-n-b [More Headers] >>In line with the McQueen v. Tyler (as an example) idea, how about this? >> What do you think any Michael Biehn character would do to Nathan West? >> Ah, Greyhound, poor Nate wouldn't stand a chance! :) > >Well, he'd go out fighting. =) Actually, I think that West and the >Michael Biehn character (Kyle) in The Terminator would have been a good >match. Kyle's a survivor, but Nate's a Marine... I think that would be the >fight of the century! Of course, both of them are level-headed good guys, >so I think they'd team up...which makes for an interesting proposition. If >you're going to throw another character into Space, I'd hire Michael Biehn. >He'd make a great Marine (and I won't even talk about his semper psycho >Navy SEAL character...), and I bet he'd be a kickin' addition to the 58th. >If Paul has to be dead (*sob*), I'd want Michael Biehn to take Joel's >place. > This thread is beginning to remind me of the never-ending Enterprise vs the Death Star threads on r.a.s.t... ;-> Gotta agree that any character (Corporal Hicks, the guy in the Abyss, even Kyle, who wasn't exactly a Marine) played by Biehn would kick Nathan's butt (maybe Cooper could take him, maybe not), but let's recall that the actor is probably a good decade older than our young Marines. It'd be hard to import him to play a peer. A mysterious Major from Special Forces, now... that's the ticket! Dark and haunted past... brooding alone in the bar... swift, silent, deadly... kicking Chiggie butt behind the lines... *oooooh!* -- Jane