Maybe he meant “place a spoiler on the movie to reduce lift?”
I do recall one clone episode. But, the premise of that one was ‘Trevor plays with cloning’. He’d developed or had developed a device which looked like a watch and took cell samples from a person’s heart. He has all kinds of ideas on how he can use the technology. Aeon has her own ideas. I don’t recall the technology showing up in any other episodes.
Trevor’s process recreates the subjects at the exact moment the DNA sample is taken from them, so the copy has all of the original person’s memories and attitudes to that point in time. (For that reason, the show’s creators were careful not to use the word ‘clone,’ which I forgot until just now even though I watched the thing with commentary a few days ago.) In that episode, Aeon allows Trevor to copy her. She then trades places with the clone and stays with Trevor as his lover, pretending to be the copy, while the copy continues to plant bombs and do what she would normally do. At the end of the episode, the original Aeon dies while allowing the duplicate to return to Monica. So the Aeon that we see in every subsequent episode is actually the copy.
Marley23 I remembered the plot fine. But, does any of the halfhour episodes establish continuity with any of the others? Does anything happen in one that effects any of the others?
I’m just saying that the ‘clones with memories’ thing he was complaining about also appears in the series, and in fact, they’ve got much more than vaugue memories.
I feel that there’s a certain amount of evolution or development in Aeon and Trevor’s relationship, but there’s little real continuity.
We never learn how she got out of that paralytic fluid, either.
Based on the commentary and special features, though we are apparently supposed to accept that the original Aeon really did die in the episode I mentioned, and that it’s the copy we see in the rest of the series.
That paralytic fluid one just creeped me the hell out…brr just the thought of ending up like that…
Yeah, I’m pretty sure I had dreams about it after I first saw it - and forgot about them until I read the back of the DVD box last week. (I love it when that happens.) So no matter how often I see that episode, I imagine I’ll always get tense over the last few minutes and be creeped out by the end.
Marley23 I don’t have the DVD. What exactly does the commentary say?
Re Paralytic Fluid
The last few seconds of that episode is one of my favorite moments from the series.
Should I keep hiding this, or is it getting silly?
Peter Chung says that one reason they did that episode was to explain how Aeon died at the end of every short and reappeared in the next one. And in a feature about Aeon’s weapons, the character says “I’ll never really know, of course, what happened between my own original self and Goodchild. But I am painfully aware of how it can only have altered her. And of how irreversibly. What the hell did he do?” and so on.