Wow. This is the most speculation I've ever seen on a fic of mine (and there are footnotes. That made me smile).
*impish grin* Yeah yeah, I'm a big dork.
I know Brain kept claiming that the things he could predict were based purely on heuristic mathamatics and the study of patterns, and a lot of it probably was, but not all of it. Math and pattern observation don't allow a person, no matter how smart, to envision an outcome when there are unknown factors in play. Brain envisioned outcomes when he didn't know all the factors in play, and he'd also get flashes of future vision, when there was nothing to alert him to changed circumstances. While he might have been able to predict how the baddies were likely to react, he shouldn't have been able to envision exactly how it would play out, without having actually been in the buildings he described in detail.
So we'll have to agree to disagree about Brain being psychic.
I appreciate Cy too, he's a good character, with his own motivations. Without him, there'd be a whole lot less to the story. Incidentally, I tend to think Ames is a great character, a truly sinister bad guy. Max doesn't gotta like either of them, (and it would be kinda weird if she did, given the givens) But I appreciate them for what they are.
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7/12/06 02:51 (UTC)*impish grin* Yeah yeah, I'm a big dork.
I know Brain kept claiming that the things he could predict were based purely on heuristic mathamatics and the study of patterns, and a lot of it probably was, but not all of it. Math and pattern observation don't allow a person, no matter how smart, to envision an outcome when there are unknown factors in play. Brain envisioned outcomes when he didn't know all the factors in play, and he'd also get flashes of future vision, when there was nothing to alert him to changed circumstances. While he might have been able to predict how the baddies were likely to react, he shouldn't have been able to envision exactly how it would play out, without having actually been in the buildings he described in detail.
So we'll have to agree to disagree about Brain being psychic.
I appreciate Cy too, he's a good character, with his own motivations. Without him, there'd be a whole lot less to the story. Incidentally, I tend to think Ames is a great character, a truly sinister bad guy. Max doesn't gotta like either of them, (and it would be kinda weird if she did, given the givens) But I appreciate them for what they are.