On Jan 1, 11:36 am, Dan Dassow  wrote:
> On Dec 31, 6:13 pm, Duggy  wrote:
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> > On Jan 1, 9:13 am, Joseph DeMartino  wrote:
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> > > On Dec 31, 12:56 am, Duggy  wrote:
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> > > > > 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.
> JMS referred to these "triggers" as trap doors in case any actor did
> not work out or left.
No.  The brainwashing wasn't a trapdoor.  The brainwashing was a long
term plot.  Ity was just usable as a trapdoor in this case.
Trigger is a writer's term for something that allows later story to be
told.  At least that's what I was taught at Uni.
JMS doesn't use it differently.
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