--- Jenny Kaye wrote: >
That would have been Terry Nation and Chris
Boucher.
Forgive me. I didn't realise they actually had
said as much.
Perhaps you should watch the series again?
How would that help ? Do they make Hitchcockesque appearances in Deathwatch, explaining that Gan was really Jack the Ripper ? Incidentally your argument, which is a good one if somewhat over elaborate, would be improved hugely if you refrained from suggesting that people who disagree with you are guilty of bad faith or not paying attention. The whole point about debate is you need two sides.
It would be helpful if you could cite interviews where either of the two suggested that Gan was not quite as wholesome as he seemed. I am not doubting your veracity, I would just like to know.
And in all 18 episodes never gives her name, or
refers to it again.
Using lack of evidence as evidence in itself is
not usually a good idea.
It's not lack of evidence, it's negative evidence, there's a difference. We're talking a character-defining moment here. And it's very interesting that we had just seen very similar events happening on Cygnus Alpha (Gan connects with a woman whose name he doesn't know,
How do we know this ? Gan and the others spend a considerable period of time on Cygnus Alpha. We know that Kara is attracted to Gan and that she has gone to the trouble of finding out his name. Might she not have exchanged a few words with him ? Or introduced herself ? It's not as if she's playing hard to get. The fact that she takes a spear for him suggests the relationship has gone further than the kiss (I don't necessarily mean physically).
To use the only other example we have of the
crew's past love lives...how
often does Avon speak about Anna other than in
the episode we actually see
her?
Countdown, Children of Auron. Haven't been paying attention have you:-)?
Au contraire, Leia has been paying attention. Avon speaks about Anna in those episodes when it is necessary to the plot. In Countdown he cannot avoid the subject, in CoA the crew are on route to earth and in RoD Avon goes after Anna's killer. Otherwise the subject doesn't ever come up. Not even when he is sharing a moment of intimacy with Cally in Sarcophagus. Blake doesn't refer to his family after Space Fall, Avon doesn't refer to his brother after Space Fall, Jenna doesn't refer to her mother after Space Fall, Cally doesn't refer to the events on Saurian Major after Time Squad, Tarrant refers to his brother's death once in Sand, Cally doesn't refer to the death of her sister after CoA. No-one mentions Jenna after Powerplay until Blake tells Tarrant about her death. Gan's non reference to 'his woman' after Time Squad is the norm, not the exception.
Stephen.
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