From: "Harriet Monkhouse" hflysator@jarriere.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [B7L] TWB , Guilt, and Story Arc (long)
Dana wrote:
Blake was arrested for his revolutionary activities, mind-wiped, and spent a period of time as a law-abiding citizen until his second arrest, which resulted in another mind-wipe and his life sentence to Cygnus Alpha on the fabricated child abuse charges.
Hang on, where's the second mindwipe? I thought they gave up on fixing his mind at that point on the grounds that the first one seemed to be breaking down.
There were two "mindwipes" but they happened much closer together.
I think I'll let Bran Foster explain - he's much better at it than I am.
FOSTER (to Blake) They could have killed you. But that would have given the Cause a martyr. So instead they put you into intensive therapy. They erased areas of your mind, they implanted new ideas. They literally took your mind to pieces and rebuilt it. And when they'd finished, they put you up and you confessed. You said you'd been "misguided." You appealed to everyone to support the Administration, hound up the traitors. Oh, they did a good job on you. You were very convincing. And then they took you back and erased even that.
Wildean