In message 14uARe-21hY8HC@fwd03.sul.t-online.com, Tanja Kinkel Angria@t-online.de writes
Of course I'd have loved to have seen Avon instead of Tarrant on the planet with her but then to contrive an excuse why he doesn't kill her at the end would have really stretched imagination too far.
Which is why Lee wrote it the way she did - she didn't think it was possible to put that pair together in that situation and have them survive the experience. Although she said that if she'd known the series was going to end so soon, she might have thought differently about it.