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.   
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   > > > > And when the tirgger couldn't properly pulled on it with her, moved on   
   > > > > to Garibaldi.   
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   > > > 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.   
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   > > 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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