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Skriven 2007-08-03 00:59:48 av Amy Guskin (3144.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: TLT: Spoiler thread -- HERE BE SPOILERS!!!
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>> On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 19:18:55 -0400, Josh Hill wrote
(in article <i6n4b399estb8paj6rhfk08n5o4vjv2rl5@4ax.com>):

> On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:27:06 GMT, Amy Guskin <aisling@fjordstone.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I've been thinking about this a lot, and before I watch it again, I wanted 
>> to 
>> throw this out and see what kind of response there is.
>> 
>> What kind of technology are the techno-mages using to predict the future?  
>> Or, are we to assume that they are merely extrapolating from known data 
>> (Vintari is the son of crazy Cartagia; Vintari seems to have the same sort 
>> of 
>> longing for a return to the grand old days of the Republic that Londo has)? 
>>  
>> Galen seems _awfully_ assured of this destruction-of-many-worlds scenario, 
>> to 
>> be advising that Sheridan outright assassinate the kid.
>> 
>> I'm not saying that assassination is something unheard of for the 
>> techno-mages, but it was just disturbing that Galen was just _so_ ready for 
>> Sheridan to do it.  So that got me to wondering just how precise and 
>> correct 
>> is his information about the future.
> 
> Didn't they sort of explain -- or not explain -- some of this in the
> episode? We aren't told whether Galen's ability to "see" into the
> future is science or magic, but IIRC he does acknowledge that it's a
> contingent prediction rather than an immutable one (after all, if it
> weren't, there wouldn't be much of a reason to kill the prince). <<

Yeah, but a contingent prediction would be, "Listen, this guy is a bit of a 
nut job, and looking at his pedigree, and hearing some of the nonsense he 
spouts to his friends, we are _really_ worried that this could mean trouble 
up the road..."  Not "This guy is going to rise to power, and send out 
terrible devices which will destroy many millions of lives, and lay waste to 
New New York and all the mutants living underground there."  Galen was just 
so _specific_ in what he was saying, it seemed to me.

>>> Whatever the Technomages are using is clearly beyond the technology of
> the Alliance, but not necessarily beyond the capability of other
> technologies we've already seen in B5 -- the Great Machine, say, which
> can manipulate time. Then too, the Centauri have some ability to see
> the future, as perhaps also the mystery box -- whatever it is -- in
> Crusade. <<

Hrm.  The Great Machine.  Time rifts.  That's a little better, certainly.  I 
could probably live with that degree of fanwank.

Amy
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