On Dec 31, 6:13 pm, Duggy  wrote:
> On Jan 1, 9:13 am, Joseph DeMartino  wrote:
>
> > On Dec 31, 12:56 am, Duggy  wrote:
>
> > > > Once Talia was brought in, the hidden personality thread could be
> > > > moved from Laurel to her.
>
> > > And when the tirgger couldn't properly pulled on it with her, moved on
> > > to Garibaldi.
>
> > The trigger *was* properly pulled on Talia - Talia "died' and the
> > other personality took over - which was how that particular program
> > (the one the Laurel would have been part of) was designed to work.
> > What happened to Garibaldi was something very different.
>
> I mean the writer's trigger.  JMS used it to write the character out,
> not to use her as a friend-turned-foe.  So he had to move that to
> Garibaldi.
>
> ===
> = DUG.
> ===
Dug,
JMS referred to these "triggers" as trap doors in case any actor did
not work out or left.
Dan Dassow
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