I think it was Tavia who said:
I also find it hard to watch 'The Way Back', an
excellent episode with so
many implications for the kind of fanfic I'd like
to write, simply 'cos it
lacks my favoured character.
The trouble is that Blake seems to undergo a complete character change between TWB and Space Fall-- which I suppose might happen given the level of trauma, but still should have gotten at least a minute of screen time. Blake in TWB is a pawn completely at the mercy of events--he doesn't go outside with the deliberate intention of returning to subversive activity, only to hear about his brother and sister (since Ravella and Richie are blackmailing him, they may also have fabricated the story that his family has been killed). He spends the massacre hiding, which is a very natural and believable human reaction but not very Blake-like; his conduct in the rest of the series is nothing if not pro-active. And he tells Ravella that he needs time to think about what she's just said--something he very conspicuously doesn't give Avon in Space Fall. Also TWB is the first and last time Vila seems sinister.
-(Y)