With MGB the telepathy seems to have expanded to include memory erasing. And don't-notice-me projections.
Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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Typo Boy - Oct 24, 2006 4:03:10 pm PDT #3086 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
§ ita § - Oct 24, 2006 4:04:33 pm PDT #3087 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How did they indicate MBG can read minds?
sumi - Oct 24, 2006 4:07:46 pm PDT #3088 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Yes.
Well, if he's being M and he's certainly a b & a G but sadly that other guy has no other name. What's up with that? I bet it means bad things for his future on this show.
Typo Boy - Oct 24, 2006 4:09:39 pm PDT #3089 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
How did they indicate MBG can read minds?
They didn't. But memory erasing strikes MGB style struck me as a kind of telepathy whether you get detailed information back or not. I mean you concentrate hard and memories erase, and you get at least enough information back to tell how much you have erased. "go deep" "hollow him out". Presumably, there is "Just the skim the surface". Maybe that is not done via telepathy, but it sure sounds like the most probable way.
Similarly MGB keeps showing up out of nowhere when Daddy Dearest summons him. Yeah from behind a curtain or something, but how does he always get there with no one noticeing. I'm tenatively hypothesizing telepathic projection of "don't notice me" - cause it is another mental power.
DXMachina - Oct 24, 2006 4:36:51 pm PDT #3090 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I'm tenatively hypothesizing telepathic projection of "don't notice me" - cause it is another mental power.
A.k.a. Plateau eyes in Larry Niven's books. And the whole hollow him out thing is like Bester's demolishing. Which in Claire's dad's case is even more effective than murder.
DCJensen - Oct 24, 2006 4:38:27 pm PDT #3091 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
I have a theory on Hiro's growing English vocabulary.
I think he Hiro already can read English, but is finally learning to speak and hear it constantly spoken, so his prior knowledge is helping connect the dots.
Plus he is, of course, awesome. Don't discount that.
DXMachina - Oct 24, 2006 4:43:28 pm PDT #3092 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I think he Hiro already can read English,
I thought that, too, but then he couldn't read the guidebook after Ando left.
DCJensen - Oct 24, 2006 4:52:15 pm PDT #3093 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
I thought that, too, but then he couldn't read the guidebook after Ando left.
Hmm. Maybe it was badly translated from Japanese. Engrish is hard enough to read to native readers....
DXMachina - Oct 24, 2006 4:59:53 pm PDT #3094 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
He did recognize the word "waffles."
sumi - Oct 24, 2006 5:02:53 pm PDT #3095 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Well, there may have been a picture.