Nature is not good or bad, not ugly or beautiful, not weak or strong. Nature is, and nature is sometimes hard to understand.
This is where poetry comes in. “What can be explained is not poetry”, wrote the great Irish poet William Butler Yeats in a note to his son.
However, poetry can explain the world. Usually it doesn’t use the tools of rationality, but empathy, intuitition, associativity,…
So in the alternate ending of "Only The Good..." having nano Rimmer come back with the antidote and then dying via soda can to the face, it would be a great full circle thing where he saves the crew and then dies, vs the pilot where he kills the crew then dies.
Am I the Only One who does not like the Idea of Casey Jones being a Mutant????
(Mutant Casey Jones 2012 is by @probably-not-a-rutabaga, Mutant Cassandra Jones by @avephelis, Mutant Casey Jones Junior by @sashapetukh/@somerandomdudelmao and Mutant Casey Jones 1987 is from a TMNT Cereal Comic by Ralston Purina)