Talk:Alpha/@comment-1674153-20190528004418/@comment-1674153-20190528054243

The entire crux of the show is that gray area between science and magic called discovery - say what you will about the magical nature of the cases of the week, steam punk and atomic age aesthetic was the overt coloring for the entire show. The tools on hand for the agents took advantage of alternative energy sources, they found weapons of mass destruction and unfathomable power in inconspicuous packages, all through secretive and furitive means. Heck, one could draw an easy comparison to the Warehouse's philosophy of snag, bag, and tag to the imperialism inherent in the Victorian Era or the government oversight in the atomic era.

As far as classifying agents as Alphas or not...Well, I can't help but be reminded of the many cases where epileptic people have been thought to be touched by spirits - or perhaps, people touched by spirits were thought to be epileptic. Neither view point really prevents the other from being true.

We could let magic and science coexist as different things, but by doing so we need inherently define what makes them different. And that will get messy for nearly every artifact we have on this site. If, on the other hand, they exist as the same principle viewed from different ends...well, I suppose my stance is that just gives us a chance to rotate it all around and find even more ways to see.