Alison wrote: <But here you seem to be saying 'this is definitely the truth about Gan's character' - and that seems to me to be a meaningless statement. Where is truth held? What does 'truth' mean when we are talking about a work of fiction?>
Yes, yes, a hundred thousand times yes!!!
I do rather like Gan (though he'd be a fair way down on my list of favourites). I like most of them. The thing is this isn't the Battle of the Bulge or a treatise on well, anything, it's a TV show which we all enjoy for our own reasons, and even if those reasons are simply "I like the characters this way, thank you", that's a perfectly valid POV.
It really *is* okay if Steve R thinks Gan is a homicidal maniac and I think he's just the only ordinary man in sight pushed into an extraordinary environment - or if someone like Judith Seaman thinks that GP Blake really did intend to sell Avon out (an argument I can't even begin to comprehend, but so what?), as long as it's remembered that I *don't* have to agree if I don't think it's warranted. Listening to people give their own very different versions can be lots of fun if that's kept in mind; it was last year and before that and can be again.
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