Spellbinder (TV Mini Series)

It Isn't Magic, It's Science (1995)

Gosia Piotrowska: Riana

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Quotes 

• Bron : Did you see that? My nephew drove off the marauders. Isn't he a marvel?

  Gryvon : Using magic is forbidden.

  Riana : It wasn't magic, it's science.

• [Riana comes to wake up Paul, who has been sleeping in the barn] 

  Riana : Paul.

  Paul : I'm tired, dad, let me go back to sleep.

  Riana : Paul, it's Riana. It's time for work.

  Paul : I'm not old enough to go to work.

  Riana : Everyone who eats must work. It's the law.

  Paul : Riana, it's still dark.

  Riana : By the time you dress and have breakfast, it won't be.

• Paul : Why don't these Spellbinders let you have anything new? In my world, nearly all farming is done with machines.

  Riana : What is "machines"?

  Paul : You're complicated tools that make life easier. Like in my world, we don't have to walk everywhere. We have cars. They're like a chair with wheels and you sit in the chair and it takes you where you want to go.

  Riana : Could this chair take me to Rivertown?

  Paul : No, because you don't have any roads.

  Riana : Could it take me up the river?

  Paul : No.

  Riana : Could it take me across the fields?

  Paul : Not without destroying your crops, but...

  Riana : These chairs would be of no use in our world.

• [Paul observes the Spellbinders' flying ship casting a "spell" over a blighted field] 

  Paul : They're crop-dusting.

  Riana : Come back.

  Paul : They're spraying the field with chemicals; poisons to kill the blight. The Spellbinders aren't magicians, they use science, just like in my world.