Maxie Zeus (The Character, not the Mod)

[Karkull]

I just got the February 1994 issue of Cinefantastique (I highly recommend ordering it--they have back issues available), which has several in-depth articles about BTAS and an episode guide for the first 65.

One of the most interesting comments made about the characters was about Maxie Zeus, who really hasn't had much said about him by the creative team. Here's what Dan Riba had to say:

We were trying to play Maxie Zeus as a looney. With all our other villains you follow their slow descent into madness, but when we come to Maxie, he's just nuts. It's the episode most like the old '60s show, and basically Maxie functions as our King Tut.

Does anyone have any comments on that? There's something about what Riba said that seems...off somehow. I know he's not disparaging the character, but comparing Fire From Olympus to the 60s Batman show seems wrong somehow.

[BLACKHEART]

It's a matter of time. I think they are talking about the character. He thought he was King Tut, where as he think's he is Zeus. They wanted to capture the madness of a normal man who think's he is a God. Not a campy guy running around in a bed sheet.

[Salvor]

Well Maxie is really dumb! Oh, you were talking about the character... :D

[DR. BELCH]

Not much different then, say, those fartknockers on The Howard Stern show who both thought they were Jesus Christ...a common ocurance in schizophrenia, which I'm sure Maxie has, is a clang association--his last name sounds like/is "Zeus", so he thinks he's a Greek deity. In the case of one of these Jesuses, his initials were G.S.G--or, gees ess.... :rolleyes: