Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24.5.15.241-20131017003744/@comment-4616231-20131121230949

That's not the point though. Of course them being alive would make sense NOW, as they're well, you know, ALIVE. And of course that's a nice medical explanation for shit but RT isn't going to get that technical. The point is, they made us believe they were dead and they could've stayed dead if it wasn't for RT's decision to bring them back. Of course they were "never dead in the first place"; they HAD to be if they were going to have them return (except possibly Lopez but it looks like his backups never even mattered). The problem was finding some way to explain that. For all we know they were going to have them stay dead until they changed their minds later.

A character was believed to be dead, but it turns out they wern't. But because everyone thought they were, it counts as "bringing dead characters back". Because for all we knew they were dead.