Post by smitten on Jan 21, 2009 11:46:13 GMT 1
Intel up to 12 midday only please.
Do you buy the way Tony came back?
Here are the issues:
1) He's alive. He had been injected with something (was it sodium pentothal?) straight into the chest, something that would have been expected to kill him. Now, we don't know what was actually in the syringe. It's entirely possible that the syringe had been filled incorrectly, or that he picked up the wrong one, and that what he received wasn't as lethal as Jack, and the medics, thought.
2) Emerson had been keeping tabs on him as a potential recruit. He had a history of betraying the government to protect Michelle, then Michelle died, so that kind of makes sense. But someone had to get in there very quickly to swap bodies round and revive Tony. CTU had just been attacked with Sentox gas, so whoever it was must have been very good at surviving this.
3) Tony was 'dead' for almost 10 minutes. He was injected with a hypothermic compound. Leaving aside the matter that such compounds don't exist (neither does beroglide), the way I see it, someone quickly injected the body with something to reduce his body temperature. People have been known to be very cold, with no recordable pulse, no noticeable respirations, and when they warm up they come 'back to life'. The state of cold makes the body hibernate, so the brain cells need less O2 to survive. So this is how he managed 10 minutes without oxygen to his brain - normally 4 minutes would caused certain neurological damage, even if the body could be revived. So that gave Emerson, or his operative, time to swap bodies and resuscitate Tony.
4) Next I'm trying to imagine the first conversation between Tony and Emerson. Tony said Emerson had been like a brother. But for Tony to swap sides? Tony was certainly upset that Henderson was to be let off the hook after Michelle died. Tony was also recovering from his own injuries received in the explosion.
But somehow I have trouble with the idea that Tony would latch on to Emerson and do his bidding. I wonder what he did? Bad things, but not things that endangered innocent Americans. Hmmm... Scrumping for apples? Letting air out of car tyres? Defecating in post boxes?
So I suppose, after rereading what I've written here, what I'm saying is that I can accept the technical and medical aspects of his supposed death and revival better than I can accept his motivations. Tony was a dedicated government agent. Why change? I don't think that bit has been well enough explained to me yet.
Can anyone help?
Do you buy the way Tony came back?
Here are the issues:
1) He's alive. He had been injected with something (was it sodium pentothal?) straight into the chest, something that would have been expected to kill him. Now, we don't know what was actually in the syringe. It's entirely possible that the syringe had been filled incorrectly, or that he picked up the wrong one, and that what he received wasn't as lethal as Jack, and the medics, thought.
2) Emerson had been keeping tabs on him as a potential recruit. He had a history of betraying the government to protect Michelle, then Michelle died, so that kind of makes sense. But someone had to get in there very quickly to swap bodies round and revive Tony. CTU had just been attacked with Sentox gas, so whoever it was must have been very good at surviving this.
3) Tony was 'dead' for almost 10 minutes. He was injected with a hypothermic compound. Leaving aside the matter that such compounds don't exist (neither does beroglide), the way I see it, someone quickly injected the body with something to reduce his body temperature. People have been known to be very cold, with no recordable pulse, no noticeable respirations, and when they warm up they come 'back to life'. The state of cold makes the body hibernate, so the brain cells need less O2 to survive. So this is how he managed 10 minutes without oxygen to his brain - normally 4 minutes would caused certain neurological damage, even if the body could be revived. So that gave Emerson, or his operative, time to swap bodies and resuscitate Tony.
4) Next I'm trying to imagine the first conversation between Tony and Emerson. Tony said Emerson had been like a brother. But for Tony to swap sides? Tony was certainly upset that Henderson was to be let off the hook after Michelle died. Tony was also recovering from his own injuries received in the explosion.
But somehow I have trouble with the idea that Tony would latch on to Emerson and do his bidding. I wonder what he did? Bad things, but not things that endangered innocent Americans. Hmmm... Scrumping for apples? Letting air out of car tyres? Defecating in post boxes?
So I suppose, after rereading what I've written here, what I'm saying is that I can accept the technical and medical aspects of his supposed death and revival better than I can accept his motivations. Tony was a dedicated government agent. Why change? I don't think that bit has been well enough explained to me yet.
Can anyone help?
