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Another startling revelation, plucked straight from my mind and delivered to you, free of charge. In "The Demiurge" there is one scene where Aeon climbs up the Goodchild Tower and looks in a window to see a woman crying over a crushed box, and some guy laughing at her. You know the one I'm talking about. Anyway, the box looks exactly like the one under Nadir's bed that he told Celia to destroy. I think the box had another demiurge-inhabited animal in it. The demiurge killed the laughing guy, not because he was immoral, but because he killed the animal.

-- Frostbite (SlipperyMermaid@bar.com), December 01, 1998

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%tThat's something I never considered before... I always thought she was crying over a fallen friend or relative that had died in the recent war. The inclusion of the box in the scene would go to back up your scenario. Oh, I just realized something else! If what you say is true, then the Demiurge may be killing or saving based on people's morals toward divinity. Celia decides not to kill the karmic kitty (so to speak) and thus is saved by the Demiurge at the end of the episode. And it frightens the man that killed a manifestation of divinity. But what does this mean about Aeon and Trevor, who were left unharmed by the demiurge? Perhaps this means that the Demiurge only has an opinion concerning the morally biased - only the very good and the very bad. Perhaps Chung was making a statement about the two characters... that they both had the capacity for moral good and evil in them, in equal mixes, and that this isn't offensive to divinity or to morality. Kindred spirits, perhaps? The Demiurge reminds me of both Aeon and Trevor, now that I think about it. The demiurge escapes its restraints (like Aeon would), tries to bring peace to the world (like Trevor), shows kindness toward people it deems worthy or needy of it (like Aeon), and gets even with those it deems worthy (also like Aeon). I get the feeling something mysterious is going on here... The Demiurge seems to be seeking out Aeon specifically... it shows up at her home, yet takes no action... remember, the collapse of the building is caused by a lack of duct tape, not divine intervention. I wonder what it had in store for her?

-- Mat Rebholz (matrebholz@yahoo.com), December 25, 1998.

%tThat's something I never considered before... I always thought she was crying over a fallen friend or relative that had died in the recent war. The inclusion of the box in the scene would go to back up your scenario. Oh, I just realized something else! If what you say is true, then the Demiurge may be killing or saving based on people's morals toward divinity. Celia decides not to kill the karmic kitty (so to speak) and thus is saved by the Demiurge at the end of the episode. And it frightens the man that killed a manifestation of divinity. But what does this mean about Aeon and Trevor, who were left unharmed by the demiurge? Perhaps this means that the Demiurge only has an opinion concerning the morally biased - only the very good and the very bad. Perhaps Chung was making a statement about the two characters... that they both had the capacity for moral good and evil in them, in equal mixes, and that this isn't offensive to divinity or to morality. Kindred spirits, perhaps? The Demiurge reminds me of both Aeon and Trevor, now that I think about it. The demiurge escapes its restraints (like Aeon would), tries to bring peace to the world (like Trevor), shows kindness toward people it deems worthy or needy of it (like Aeon), and gets even with those it deems worthy (also like Aeon). I get the feeling something mysterious is going on here... The Demiurge seems to be seeking out Aeon specifically... it shows up at her home, yet takes no action... remember, the collapse of the building is caused by a lack of duct tape, not divine intervention. I wonder what it had in store for her?

I too had originally thought that she was crying over a fallen son or whatever in the war with Monica.......but a few days ago I too saw the semi-crushed box. It makes more sence that this was a box (if not the same one that Celia tried to crush, but that was in Monica) with a Demiurge effected thing. Why else would the guy be laughing? We know that there are those people (most of the Breens) who embrase the Demiurge and those (most of the Monicans) who value free will over peace and the Demiurge. So they guy probably is happy (if not responsible) that the box is crushed and the Demiurge thing is gone. But when the Demiurge shows itself to him, he freaks out.....it's not gone like he thought.

Another thing.......the scene when the Demiurge breaks the seals on the rocket and it's light and music begin to change the world, we see Celia crawl back down where she was trapped. Just before we saw that Nadier (spelling) was killed. Now I think that she cried not just for his death but because the Monicans failed in stopping the Demiurge. The Monicans (or most anyway) view the Demiurge as evil....that it will destroy the world.....or at least how they percieve it. Also.....I think the Demiurge shows you infinate saddness along with infinate peace. We see the Demiurge crying several times......and it does effect people that way.......Celia (IMHO) and the Breen in the Tower.

Also.....I don't think that Demiurge-effected objects remain divine unless the Demiurge is alive and on Earth. Remember when Aeon and Celia are back at the Monican base and the Bird appears with all the glory of the Demiurge.....Aeon says, "that bird! Then It's still here!" When Aeon sees the Bird she knows that the Demiurge has not been completely destroyed. That's why she journeys to Bregna and the Command Tower.....to finish the job that she and her people didn't do.

-- Plutar Circavus (karl.wolf@unisys.com), January 14, 1999.


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