Jordan Price vs Paxton Powers

[DerekPowers]

i'm sure this has been mentioned before, but does anyone else here think Jordan Price was a useless character? I think they should have used Paxton in his place, they are practically the same character, and paxton would have given rotj a nice connection to the story arc in the series.

I know alot of people will say paxton got sent up the river in "king's ransom", but he was just arrested, and i'm sure the charges werent to big considering the royal flush gang did most of the crimes, plus paxton is a millionare and the head of a global conclomerate, i'm sure he could get out of that predicament (after all, look how many times lex was in hot water yet nothing happened.).

so what do you guys think? i think rotj would have been the perfect way to bring closeur (sp?) to the whole powers story arc and the transfer from waynepowers back to wayne enterprises. i mean, when it comes to the powers family, we really never got solid resolutions in the series. ascension strongly hints that blight will return, but he never does, and paxton isnt seen again till kings ransom, where we never hear what exactly happens to him. plus the whole change to wayne enterprises in rotj is very confussing to me, since up untill the last ep aired, the co was still waynepowers. opinions.....

[DR. BELCH]

....Paxton's no Luthor. Besides, there's no telling what skeletons turned up in his closet from his years handling his father's business in South America. Maybe that was one of the inexplicable edits to ROTJ, something about Paxton getting stabbed to death by by a shiv-weilding thug in a prison riot.... :D

[Tim Drake]

That would have been interesting. I must admit. And having closure is important. But I got the impression that Paxton Powers was gone for good. Luthor never actually was arrested. Remember he was at the scene where they attempted to kill Bruce so he's up for attempted murder or something to that effect. So he's story is kinda closed. Also, Jordan Pryce was created for a reason. He was supposed to look like and sound like the Joker. The red herring in ROTJ. No one would ever suspect that Patxon Powers was the Joker. It wouldn't make any sense. Anywho that's my two cents on why Pryce exists.

[Maxie Zeus]

It's an interesting idea. One of the story arcs is about Wayne putting his life back in order, and getting WayneEnterprises back is certainly part of that. But that part is resolved at the beginning, with Wayne already firmly in charge. If he had to push Paxton out of the way at some point it would make his determination clearer. Paxton could have been in cahoots with the Joker as easily as Pryce had been.

The only downside would be that, as Tim Drake points out, Paxton couldn't be a red herring the way Pryce was. But since Pryce was obviously a red herring, it might have better just to lose that part of the plot.

[DerekPowers]

thats a great point tim drake, one i never really thought of. yeah, price was the red herring, but i guess i never REALLY saw him as possibly being the joker because i knew dini and timm would never give us anything but the genuine article. but, as the movie progressed, even though i knew the joker wasnt an imposter, i still questioned it here and there w/ jordan and drake, so i guess jordan had some what of a role to fill in the movie. excellent point.

[Tim Drake]

Glad to know my opinions are taken seriously. But you made some very valid points as well. I'm glad that people here can calmly discuss their different opinions. But one last note..... just cause. In the original version they planned for ROTJ there was an additional scene making Pryce even more of a red herring. SO like I said a definite reason. I kinda hoping that for some crazy reason they actually animate that sequence. They already have it storyboarded and the voices done. Its on the ROTJ DVD.

[superman complex]

Also Price and Wayne had a very different conflict going then he would have had with Paxton Powers. Price was next in line after Wayne. It was already Paxton's company.

For this to work you'd have to change the story from a struggle for sucession to Wayne pirating his way in while Paxton's in court for all those stolen arifacts he had(ala "King's Ransom"). That wouldn't make much sense.

Paxton must have gone up the river, as said, or else Wayne and Price wouldn't fight over the seat. Or I could be missing something, I haven't seen half of season 3. Stupid Kid's WB! like to play pick an episode from the hat, Toonami's correct order airing(for the most part) will help me finish seeing the series.

[Maxie Zeus]

Actually, the ownership structure of Wayne-Powers was pretty tangled up. I'm not sure how clear it was all made, but I had the impression that Powers forced a hostile takeover on Wayne Enterprises, and wound up with the largest ownership position, with Wayne in second. (Powers could never fully force Wayne out because he continued to be a large stockholder.) After "Ascension" control of Power's shares passed to Paxton, which is why Wayne was still playing second fiddle in "King's Ransom." After that episode it is not made clear what happened to Paxton, but I'm assuming that it was as a result of the power vacuum that Wayne was able to step back in as head of Wayne-Powers. Whatever happened to Paxton's stock in the company, I don't know.

There would still be a way to bring to a Wayne-Paxton rivalry in line with the one with Pryce. Assume that Paxton is back at the company, but the board of directors (and shareholders) are more comfortable with Wayne in charge (because Paxton now has a "history.") Then Paxton has a natural motive for trying to force Wayne out, just as Pryce did.