Re: metamorphosis images

Damien R. Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Tue, 3 Mar 1998 20:49:27 -0800 (PST)


On Mar 3, 6:20pm, Anton Sherwood wrote:
> Subject: metamorphosis images
> Max writes
> : Can you think of short scenes from movies or TV that would illustrate
> : humans transforming? ... Humor is good --

> A few scenes in _Babylon 5_, in the Vorlon's quarters,

Early episode, "Mind War", where a character becomes, to steal from
Scott Adams, "a godlike being of pure energy". A transition executed by
a bunch of races a billion years before and by the human race a million
years hence. Telepathy and telekinesis are involved, though, with JMS
being coyly evasive as to whether they are wholly reducible to
technology.

The million-year-hence scene might be good, for surprise.

Oh, and said character zaps another character who slowly becomes
considerably more powerful. Still psionics, though.

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