Kevin's Watch

In the Afterword to The Real Story, SRD implies that datacore editing is analogous to something in Wagner's Ring. Was he thinking of the potion given to Siegfried to make him forget his past? Was SRD insinuating that Angus somehow absolved himself of his past crimes by removing their trace in the datacore?

perhaps but I would be disappointed if this was his rationale ..

SRD often refers to the whole Wagner thing, but at times the story isn't entirely faithful to the opera, and I'd say that the datacore editing is one of those times. Basically, there's no way that it allowed Angus to forget his past atrocities and become a genuine hero, but it prevented him from being executed on Com Mine, and thus enabled the UMCP to take him away for his modifications.

Another example of this is that, if the Gap Series was a faithful reproduction of the opera, Davies would have killed Holt Fasner. Donaldson has said that "Davies was directly responsible for Holt's death", but it occurs to me that he was a lot less directly responsible for it then the lasers in Angus' fists, given that he was all the way back over on Punisher at the time.

robo wrote:In the Afterword to The Real Story, SRD implies that datacore editing is analogous to something in Wagner's Ring. Was he thinking of the potion given to Siegfried to make him forget his past? Was SRD insinuating that Angus somehow absolved himself of his past crimes by removing their trace in the datacore?

Datacore editing is similar to the way the gods made changes to the Staff of Law (the one in the ring, not the one in Thomas Covenenant). The Gods want to undo something, but they can't so they add something. This was in Siegfried, I believe.

Navarino wrote:SRD often refers to the whole Wagner thing, but at times the story isn't entirely faithful to the opera, and I'd say that the datacore editing is one of those times. Basically, there's no way that it allowed Angus to forget his past atrocities and become a genuine hero, but it prevented him from being executed on Com Mine, and thus enabled the UMCP to take him away for his modifications.

Another example of this is that, if the Gap Series was a faithful reproduction of the opera, Davies would have killed Holt Fasner. Donaldson has said that "Davies was directly responsible for Holt's death", but it occurs to me that he was a lot less directly responsible for it then the lasers in Angus' fists, given that he was all the way back over on Punisher at the time.

Agreed.