ahha. i tell you what - i think you HAVE managed to find some unpopular opinions. or maybe i shouldnt' say that - maybe they aren't. what i mean is... that i disgaree with at least some of them ;)
wellharkather likes moloch, but i just find it so boring. i do agree that the sexist characters in this one are actually serving a purpose and making the script interesting, rather than being valorised and that is a difference between this and other ben steed's, but it's also really unpleasant to watch. and as i said - so boring. and it's weird for me that vila doesn't manage to shake doran off and he's still wandering around as a sort of comedy sidekick after he shows vila to the rape barn. the death just sort of HAPPENS, and i do like your interpretation, but it's also a bit like... wow, that was quick.
- Avon didn't sleep with anyone during the years covered by the show. He didn't realize that Blake was even a possibility, Cally said no, Dayna was too young, he knew that Servalan was a bad idea, and Soolin told him that wasn't in the contract. this is true - Servalan was messing with Avon's mind the entire time he was on Earth during rumours in order to prep him for her plan to steal the Liberator on Terminal. i quite like that she got overthrown but i don't discount this - Gan wasn't a terrible person pre-implant, but he wasn't a particularly calm person either, or any good at impulse control you write a very interesting gan, and i'd definitely like to see more. i think you are probably right, but i'll probably continue to write a straightforwardly super nice gan - Cally trained to be a doctor on Auron prior to going off and being a resistance fighter, which is why she took over the medical equipment and the health-and-wellness activity schedule on the Liberator i think fandom has brainwashed me into thinking she is the doctor when actually she hardly has that many scenes doing doctory stuff. but - this may also be true - Tarrant did have Federation conditioning and was spying on everyone on the Liberator up until Deathwatch, when he stopped. But he didn't say anything about it to anyone else on board for obvious reasons. this is intriguing, but i'm inclined to believe him - i also think this gives him too much credit ;) i'm very much on board with your other point about tarrant - Dayna, Vila, and Tarrant got drunk one time and staged a small concert on the flight deck. Orac helped. Everyone else was very confused. not this one. although i like that it is a strongly held conviction ;) - Orac deliberately withheld information about Terminal and Gauda Prime because he was jealous about Avon still looking for Blake. relatively happy to go with this in the space of a fic or whatever and i do think orac is capable of lying - i don't think it's IMplausible, but i dont think the show strongly drives this interpretation. it is definitely possible though - The main reason Tarrant wasn't chucked out an airlock in early series three is because Avon, Vila and Cally all get that he's a cocksure, arrogant kid who hasn't had a chance to grow up yet. And even though he annoys the hell out of all of them, that's not a reason to kill/abandon someone. And he's a good pilot, and trying (badly) to be a better person. Also, Dayna like him, and they all like Dayna and don't want her to have another person she loves die. this is pretty much trufax.
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Date: 2014-05-10 07:52 am (UTC)- Avon didn't sleep with anyone during the years covered by the show. He didn't realize that Blake was even a possibility, Cally said no, Dayna was too young, he knew that Servalan was a bad idea, and Soolin told him that wasn't in the contract. this is true
- Servalan was messing with Avon's mind the entire time he was on Earth during rumours in order to prep him for her plan to steal the Liberator on Terminal. i quite like that she got overthrown but i don't discount this
- Gan wasn't a terrible person pre-implant, but he wasn't a particularly calm person either, or any good at impulse control you write a very interesting gan, and i'd definitely like to see more. i think you are probably right, but i'll probably continue to write a straightforwardly super nice gan
- Cally trained to be a doctor on Auron prior to going off and being a resistance fighter, which is why she took over the medical equipment and the health-and-wellness activity schedule on the Liberator i think fandom has brainwashed me into thinking she is the doctor when actually she hardly has that many scenes doing doctory stuff. but - this may also be true
- Tarrant did have Federation conditioning and was spying on everyone on the Liberator up until Deathwatch, when he stopped. But he didn't say anything about it to anyone else on board for obvious reasons. this is intriguing, but i'm inclined to believe him - i also think this gives him too much credit ;) i'm very much on board with your other point about tarrant
- Dayna, Vila, and Tarrant got drunk one time and staged a small concert on the flight deck. Orac helped. Everyone else was very confused. not this one. although i like that it is a strongly held conviction ;)
- Orac deliberately withheld information about Terminal and Gauda Prime because he was jealous about Avon still looking for Blake. relatively happy to go with this in the space of a fic or whatever and i do think orac is capable of lying - i don't think it's IMplausible, but i dont think the show strongly drives this interpretation. it is definitely possible though
- The main reason Tarrant wasn't chucked out an airlock in early series three is because Avon, Vila and Cally all get that he's a cocksure, arrogant kid who hasn't had a chance to grow up yet. And even though he annoys the hell out of all of them, that's not a reason to kill/abandon someone. And he's a good pilot, and trying (badly) to be a better person. Also, Dayna like him, and they all like Dayna and don't want her to have another person she loves die. this is pretty much trufax.