i really really liked him a lot
Have you seen The Prestige ? Some spoilers for that film follow, so, stop reading, go watch it because it is amazing, then come back here later. Seriously, I am about to spoil at least one and maybe two plotlines from that movie. Basic premise: a couple of magicians one-upping each other. But, between illusions and near-magical science via Nikola Tesla, things get complicated. Anyway, one of the magicians, Robert Angier, played by Hugh Jackman, gets Tesla to make him a teleporter… or so it seems. The thing is, the teleportation device is not really teleporting anything. Like Badger pointed out in a seemingly out-of-place conversation in this week’s 5.5 season premiere of Breaking Bad , arguably the teleporter in Star Trek is not actually transporting you; instead, it’s tearing you apart here and recreating you someplace else… i.e. it’s making a copy of you. This argument is supporting by, say, the creation of Thomas Riker. But, this isn’t about Star Trek . It’s not even supposed ...