I know it sounds very wrong when I'm saying this, but I love your blankie reactions. A lot.
Me too, hon. And I don't have a blankie, since my 8 year old son appropriated it. But I have been reading this story while hugging my 30 year old teddy! *chuckle* ----}-@
I thought that when the time came for them to download the others' memories that it would be extremely traumatic. So many images, so fast, who memory is whose? Blending, shifting, overwhelming. Love. Hate. Fear. Anger. Remorse. Destruction of the universe.
I'm not sure if I were Sheppard that once I recovered from the download, I'd want Weir to download her duplicate's memories. I'd fear that Other!Weir's insanity would bleed through.
insanity's not a communicable disease though. Elizabeth didn't suffer from some chemical inbalance or brain-flawed/damaged induced mental illness. she'd snapped under the extreme pressure and guilt and deep, deep aloneness. this Elizabeth isn't that Elizabeth, isn't alone, and isn't under those stressors. you can't "catch" insanity.
the bigger danger, and i agree in principle with the sentiment you expressed, is the emotional overload. the brain not only stores the memories of an event, but all of the sensory inputs, AND the biochemical inputs. that's why people have knee-jerk reactions to triggers. they physically can't help themselves.
Sheppard's first instinct, overloading from the memories of his analog, could very well be rage. always a problem in a guy with a gun. Elizabeth is in very real danger.
Well, I wasn't trying to say that she would "catch" the insanity, just that an overload of the trauma and confusion of whose memory was whose could cause her to react as the other Elizabeth did. If the other Elizabeth's memories became more real than her own, then who would she be? What safeguards are there that the downloaded memories will not overwhelm and confuse? Once again, non-Ancients are using Ancient tech. We don't know what the repercussions will be.
just that an overload of the trauma and confusion of whose memory was whose could cause her to react as the other Elizabeth did.
initially, sure. and i said the same thing about John. those first moments would be problematic.
If the other Elizabeth's memories became more real than her own, then who would she be? What safeguards are there that the downloaded memories will not overwhelm and confuse?i don't see how they could become "more real", and i don't see how they could supplant the identity, memories or personality of this Elizabeth, but they can certainly be initially confusing and overwhelming...not from the emotions themselves necessarily, but from the vast download of intel all at once
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I'm not under my blankie this time, but I'm clutching it and I've got my thumb in my mouth and I'm making squealing noises.
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Me too, hon. And I don't have a blankie, since my 8 year old son appropriated it. But I have been reading this story while hugging my 30 year old teddy! *chuckle*
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I'm not sure if I were Sheppard that once I recovered from the download, I'd want Weir to download her duplicate's memories. I'd fear that Other!Weir's insanity would bleed through.
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the bigger danger, and i agree in principle with the sentiment you expressed, is the emotional overload. the brain not only stores the memories of an event, but all of the sensory inputs, AND the biochemical inputs. that's why people have knee-jerk reactions to triggers. they physically can't help themselves.
Sheppard's first instinct, overloading from the memories of his analog, could very well be rage. always a problem in a guy with a gun. Elizabeth is in very real danger.
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initially, sure. and i said the same thing about John. those first moments would be problematic.
If the other Elizabeth's memories became more real than her own, then who would she be? What safeguards are there that the downloaded memories will not overwhelm and confuse?i don't see how they could become "more real", and i don't see how they could supplant the identity, memories or personality of this Elizabeth, but they can certainly be initially confusing and overwhelming...not from the emotions themselves necessarily, but from the vast download of intel all at once ( ... )
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