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The Minearverse 6: Fiery Thread of Death

Film and TV discussion

[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath. Oh, and help us get Terriers dvds!

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Allyson - Feb 16, 2009 9:36:55 am PST #1741 of 4535

Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Well, there's some of that, and there's also the chemical soup that makes us who we are. For example, erasing my memory would not erase the seratonin imbalance that makes me depressed, which heavily influences my personality, decision making skills, and hair trigger temper. I'd be imprinted with memories, but add to that the mental illness, and you'd still have a mashup.

This would also follow with someone with autism, or schizophrenia.

There seems a weird confusion on the show between expertise granted by a memory program (like Tank loading up the program to operate a helicopter in The Matrix)and physiological issues (like asthma). You can load me with a hundred memories from the brain of an autistic man with prostrate cancer, but it doesn't change teh fact that I'm not autistic and don't have a prostrate, so neither my brain nor my body will experience the world with a cancerous bum or an autistic mind.

§ ita § - Feb 16, 2009 9:38:56 am PST #1742 of 4535

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Does anyone have the line the lab tech used to explain the shortsightedness?

Steph L. - Feb 16, 2009 9:39:54 am PST #1743 of 4535

I look more rad than Lutheranism

Does anyone have the line the lab tech used to explain the shortsightedness?

Handwave, handwave, the brain perceives the world as though she were nearsighted, handwave, handwave, midichlorians.

§ ita § - Feb 16, 2009 9:44:10 am PST #1744 of 4535

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I was kinda wanting to poke holes in the verbatim.

omnis_audis - Feb 16, 2009 9:56:21 am PST #1745 of 4535

omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

I think Amy was an Actives, and then imprinted with being a doc. It is what popped in my head when I saw a doc with scars. Can you believe it took a moment for me to realize it was Amy?? After all the swooning during Angel!

Jessica - Feb 16, 2009 9:56:45 am PST #1746 of 4535

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

ita, it may be up on Hulu or Fox.com by now.

le nubian - Feb 16, 2009 10:03:17 am PST #1747 of 4535

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Here is the quote:

"she is nearsighted"...

"I can mess up the neural connections to her eyesight. Make her brain process the information it gets any way I want."

§ ita § - Feb 16, 2009 10:17:05 am PST #1748 of 4535

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Topher: "I can mess up the neural connections to her eyesight. Mske her brain process the information it gets any way I want. As for example, blurry."

Weaker than I'd thought. I'd buy an imprint fucking with the CNS or altering brain chemistry, but that's not what they said.

Fay - Feb 16, 2009 5:48:52 pm PST #1749 of 4535

"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Handwave, handwave, the brain perceives the world as though she were nearsighted, handwave, handwave, midichlorians.

I did not see the show, but I am weeping with laughter.

Fucking midichlorians.

Kalshane - Feb 16, 2009 7:06:00 pm PST #1750 of 4535

GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

I think Amy was an Actives, and then imprinted with being a doc.

The more I'm thinking about it, the more I'm on-board with that theory. She probably got the scars in the field, which probably drastically limited the field work she could do. (If nothing else, it makes her incredibly distinctive and memorable) However, inside the Dollhouse she can still be useful as a medic until her contract is up. (Provided the DH Head Honchos actually let people go after their contract, which is yet to be seen.)

Hey, Toa's The Rock's stunt double and cousin! Mmmm.

Didn't realize he was related to The Rock. Though I can kind of see the resemblance.

Looking at his IMDB history, I guess it shouldn't be surprising to see him in a Jossverse show. He apparently did stunt work on Buffy and Angel.

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