About the universes-The Game spoiler
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Eek! I didn’t realize I was going to be quoted on this Board. The Salter Street folks seemed a bit touchy about spoilers. Personally, I’ve tried to avoid knowing much about episodes that I haven’t seen yet, so as to allow me ‘fresh’ enjoyment when they finally appear. Kind of a doomed quest.
On the subject of Brizon, I agree that he’s definitely an unreliable witness. He makes four principal claims:
1) That “Kai was mine too, you know, undead assassins like him were all under me.” Considering he takes over Kai easily, this seems reasonable. It seems unlikely that he was the Bioscholar originally in charge of reanimating Kai.
2) That he could restore Kai to life. He later admits this is a lie.
3) That “Mantrid’s machine is my design…” Mantrid himself admits this, and Mantrid is a supreme egotist. Nevertheless, Mantrid states, “I found the flaw in your primitive designs…” Essentially, Mantrid concedes the design of the machine to Brizon. At best, he merely improved a bit. Considering Mantrid’s personality and his relationship with Brizon, he wouldn’t say it if it wasn’t true.
4) “The LEXX is my design…” Unverified one way or the other. We’ve got Brizon making two substantiated claims and one false claim. So, we can respectably be uncertain about this one. On balance, I’d call him more truthful than not.
Kai calls Brizon the Supreme BioVizier. Its
a title Brizon acknowledges, but also notes that he was retired.
If he was the top dog, then on balance, I’m willing to assume he was instrumental in the LEXX project, Project Manager, top designer, yadda yadda.
Brizon notes that Mantrid was his student, an assertion which Mantrid isn’t comfortable with, but which seems to stand up overall.
Kai’s memories seem to have Brizon as a retired (deposed?) Bio-Vizier, whereabouts previously unknown. But he knew exactly where Mantrid was imprisoned.
I found it significant that Brizon was running around loose when Mantrid was imprisoned. Somehow, from what we’ve seen of the Divine Order, I didn’t think they’d be big on retirement, or letting former assets run around loose.
My inference from this is that if Brizon was alive and not imprisoned, its most likely that he left the Divine Order and escaped.
If he did escape the Divine Order, its likely that he bargained with the Heretics, trading information for wealth or security.
The LEXX project would have been the biggest bargaining chip that he had.
Ergo, I suspect that Brizon may have been responsible for the security breach that gave stanley tweedle the amino acids he’s captured with.
Alternately, or additionally, Brizon may have been involved with the Erikans who gave Thodin his key, eight years later, for the last ditch attack on the LEXX. He may have been one of the Erikans, unlikely, since they were described as ‘bio code specialists’ or he may have taken staff with him when he escaped, including the Erikans.
Whatever happened, Mantrid got left behind and immediately or afterwards imprisoned. I think its reasonable that, being the Divine Orders most brilliant mind, he may have been needed for the LEXX project after Brizon’s escape.
The most curious question about Mantrid is why he was allowed to live at all after his apparent usefulness had ended. The Divine Order seemed to be much bigger on dismemberment and execution than imprisonment. My best guess is that Mantrid was kept alive because Brizon was running around loose and a potential danger.
Anyway, excuse my ramble…
Ultimately, I’m all but certain the beans hadn’t thought this through to any great extent, and sort of made it up as they went along on many matters. But having said that, this is my take on the textual cues we have…