Now I've never seen said episode, but I'm pretty sure the popular consensus was pretty counter to tbob's opinion. I mean there's a whole friggin idiom based off that episode.
Speaking of which, I never got why Retro decided to show the Mother Brain chamber in the AU trailer.
just mere hype. it was like zelda TP's hype where the story was supposed to be the bridge to tie in all games together going by PR speak but in the end it ended fucking up even more what was already fucked up.
I belive mother brain is an Aurora Unit. The chozo and Gfed may have built the mother together, and while the chozo named her "Mother Brain" The Federation could have codenamed the project "Aurora"
it was one of those nice vague things about the metroid canon before Other M. you can come up with theories that make sense, but the fact that they could be completely wrong was cool.
The Chozo wouldn't work with the GF on anything. The Chozo probably think the Galactic Federation is a bunch of morons. Because they ARE a bunch of morons.
the AUs were probably based on Mother Brain and they made them differently and less capable to avoid another MB-like incident. after all, Mother Brain had all the knowledge inside her and the AUs just know about the areas they're in and have a network to communicate among themselves because none have access to all information freely.