Hey, nifty. Now I'm all curious. :p I can't wait to see what's going to get written for this (not just my own story).
I guess Rachel has always had really strong (if conflicted) feelings about Jean; there was all the angst between her and X-Factor!Jean, and then their brief encounters in Excalibur #71 and X-Men #30 . . . also, Jean left her a shart of holoempathic crystal and the Marvel Girl uniform (Rachel was even communicating with "Jean" in the crystal at one point, which was kind of odd). So she clearly feels really close to her "mother." While the recent canonization, as you put it, weirds me out, the closeness did make sense to me . . . after all, they are so alike, and they've shared similiar experiences (the Phoenix, notably). She identifies with Jean.
(I do wish that they would acknowledge that Jean wasn't exactly her mother, even in her own time . . . the Phoenix-as-Jean, or with-part-of-Jean's-soul, whatever, was her mother. Of course, they've screwed with the concept of the Phoenix so much that it's really hard to navigate that sort of thing anymore.)
The rest, though, I quite agree with. Rachel was really upset that Jean was dead and that Scott and Maddy's child was a boy, but I never got the impression that she was angry at either of them at that stage. I can't recall if she's ever fought Emma previous to this. I mean, Emma and Jean were definitely rivals in more than just Scott's affections (going back to their first encounter), and there was the whole semi-adultery thing, with Scott falling into Emma's arms the minute Jean was buried). Still, Rachel's anger struck me as more whiny than anything. And despite the fact that she has traditionally been a little ball of angst, I never saw it as having that edge of pettiness. The way she reacted to Piotr was ridiculous.
Claremont has apparently confessed to having "de-aged" her slightly, but aside from that, he claims that she's been the same character as always. Obviously he's lost a lot of his old skill. (And his health, did you hear he had a collapse of some kind, and now the dialogue in "his" last few issues of Uncanny is being written by someone else?)
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I guess Rachel has always had really strong (if conflicted) feelings about Jean; there was all the angst between her and X-Factor!Jean, and then their brief encounters in Excalibur #71 and X-Men #30 . . . also, Jean left her a shart of holoempathic crystal and the Marvel Girl uniform (Rachel was even communicating with "Jean" in the crystal at one point, which was kind of odd). So she clearly feels really close to her "mother." While the recent canonization, as you put it, weirds me out, the closeness did make sense to me . . . after all, they are so alike, and they've shared similiar experiences (the Phoenix, notably). She identifies with Jean.
(I do wish that they would acknowledge that Jean wasn't exactly her mother, even in her own time . . . the Phoenix-as-Jean, or with-part-of-Jean's-soul, whatever, was her mother. Of course, they've screwed with the concept of the Phoenix so much that it's really hard to navigate that sort of thing anymore.)
The rest, though, I quite agree with. Rachel was really upset that Jean was dead and that Scott and Maddy's child was a boy, but I never got the impression that she was angry at either of them at that stage. I can't recall if she's ever fought Emma previous to this. I mean, Emma and Jean were definitely rivals in more than just Scott's affections (going back to their first encounter), and there was the whole semi-adultery thing, with Scott falling into Emma's arms the minute Jean was buried). Still, Rachel's anger struck me as more whiny than anything. And despite the fact that she has traditionally been a little ball of angst, I never saw it as having that edge of pettiness. The way she reacted to Piotr was ridiculous.
Claremont has apparently confessed to having "de-aged" her slightly, but aside from that, he claims that she's been the same character as always. Obviously he's lost a lot of his old skill. (And his health, did you hear he had a collapse of some kind, and now the dialogue in "his" last few issues of Uncanny is being written by someone else?)