Harriet Monkhouse wrote:
About Blake in TWB> >
I don't think they were setting him up as such, but they've good reason to watch him: One, they're not quite convinced the reprogramming will hold (and they turn out to be right); two, they suspect that the resistance will have the same idea and try to win him back, so he's good bait to reel them in.
Both good points, well made. Watching those particular scenes back, it does seem interesting that the Security forces make their strike against the rebels on the day Blake is contacted and taken outside to one of their meetings. Also Dev Tarrant knows Blake from the old days, so he was possibly the traitor who set Blake and Foster up the first time around.
The trap and bait motif appears again and again throughout all 52 episodes of B7.
In TWB we have the trap set by the rebels for Blake.
Tarrant's trap set for the rebels.
The Federation's trap set for Blake when he returns to the city.
The legal trap set for Blake by Morag, Glynd and Dr Havant.
Blake's protestations of his innocence are a trap for Varon, drawing him into resistance.
The trap set for Varon and his wife in the office of the public records computer. (The administration could easily have altered the school attendances and central clinic records to remove the evidence. But they don't. It's a trap. The central clinic files are classified. Varon has to bribe the official. That means Varon has the potential to be a resister. The records keeper is either undercover security, or just a good citizen doing his duty. Don't forget, even Blake threatens to report the rebels to the Administration. As in Nazi Germany, the culture of "neighbourhood watch" has become an epidemic.
The final trap I suppose, is Varon's innocence. Everything he does is futile because everyone he turns to is in some way a part of the corrupt system he is trying to expose. You can't expose the system, because there is no one to expose the system too. Except the TV viewer that is.
Seven traps. Funny number that.
Jenny
"Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." - Lysator
14.5.01
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