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Skriven 2007-08-29 12:44:08 av Mac Breck (4338.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Talia Sleeper Timeline
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"James Bell" <jamesbell@embarqmail.com> wrote in message
news:fb4722$qf6$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu...
> "Mac Breck" <macthevorlon@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:46d48fc7$0$26724$ecde5a14@news.coretel.net...
> > "Jeffrey Kaplan" <nomail@gordol.org> wrote in message
> > news:kqu8d3d738lm56esj4ruc673v27tgnei8r@gordol.org...
> >> It is alleged that Jeffrey Kaplan claimed:
> >>
> >> > The Corps never picked up what Ironheart did for her because he
gave
> > it
> >> > to her in a shielded form, as covered in "A Race Through Dark
> > Places".
> >>
> >> BTW, and as shown in "The Corps Is Mother, The Corps Is Father",
> >> different personalities in the same body can, and usually do, have
> >> different Psi ratings, so it's entirely plausible that the
burgeoning
> >> abilities planted by Ironheart were never seen by the "sleeper"
> >> personality.
> >
> > Not too sure about that.  In "The Corps Is Mother, The Corps Is
Father",
> > the two personalities were naturally occuring, not as the result of
a
> > Psi Corps. addition of a sleeper personality.  If those two
> > personalities were not naturally occuring, Bester certainly should
have
> > been told about it, and he wasn't.   So, the barriers between those
> > personalities in "The Corps Is Mother, The Corps Is Father" may not
have
> > existed in Talia, especially because the sleeper personality was
> > *designed* for spying on Talia's native personality and all that the
> > native personality encountered.
>
> I've never been totally clear on this thing with Talia.
>
> There are three possibilities, and I don't know which is the right
one:
>
> 1- The Talia we knew for most of the series was a personality created
by
> PsiCorps to cover her real personality, which was fanatically
supportive of
> all things Corps, and assigned to spy in the background until brought
to the
> surface, wiping out the other Talia.

Interesting.  I'd never thought of that one, and we probably shouldn't
be talking about it here, because it made it impossible for JMS to pull
that on us now.  Ditto for #3.  Better quit speculating.


> 2- The Talia we knew for most of the series was her real personality
and the
> sleeper personality was created and hidden within her by the Corps,
assigned
> to spy in the background until brought to the surface, wiping out the
other
> Talia.

And that's the explanation we're given by Lyta.


> 3- Both Talia personalities were Corps created and whatever real Talia
there
> might have been at one point, nobody knows.

Wouldn't put it past the Corps.  They are that ruthless.



> I don't think it's #3, but I can't come to grips with whether it is #1
or
> #2.  Opinions?  Proof?

I'm going to have to go with #2.  Hope we find out what happened to
Talia, someday.  Maybe they could get Andrea back for a guest stint on
B5-TLT.


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