Having Seen the first two eps of the new season of Doctor Who...

[seawasp]

... I have only one comment:

"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"

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[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

Injured.

Mind you just the image of one appears to work so...

[girltreadwater.livejournal.com]

o right. (i didnt sleep last night so i remembered wrong) :(

but yeah, if just a photo/video works subliminally id assume even dead it would have the same effect.

[seawasp]

Probably. It's not subliminal, though. The video is very much visible. It's a matter of constantly reinforced post-hypnotic suggestion on a grand scale. The nearest literary equivalent is the "fnord" in the Illuminatus! trilogy.