Carol Mc wrote:
Sally and Mistral:
BTW - has anyone any ideas *on* what Avon and Cally's little
conversation
meant? Why didn't Avon mention the signal from the ground? And
while
we're
at it, why send the crew babies on this one?
Those are related, IMO, and it's sheer pragmatism on Avon's part. Tarrant and Dayna haven't proven their worth or their trustworthiness
to
Avon's satisfaction, so he's more willing to risk them than Cally and Vila at this point.
That doesn't feel right to me. My take on it is that Avon didn't assign anyone to the mission. Tarrant and Dayna volunteered to go;
Watching it back, yes, it's pretty clear they did.
they also
might have been the ones who conceived the mission. Avon wasn't assuming
a leadership role at this point; he seemed reluctant to order the crew about.
I think it was less that he was "reluctant to" and more of that he "wasn't in the position to".
Which we see later in the episode when he told Dayna and Tarrant about Cally and Orac but left it up to them to decide what they wanted to do.
Yes, but he also tells Tarrant that if he isn't back in one hour, then he's going to leave them all down there and fly off with Liberator.
Per what we see throughout early third season, Tarrant was the one who
typically
made decisions and tried to fill the vacancy in the leadership position. He continued to do that until Avon accepted that responsibility.
This makes it sound as if Avon was a reluctant leader. Avon stated on a number of occasions that he wanted the Liberator (Pressure Point, Killer, Star One, Power Play...), It's just that Tarrant stood in his way. This is still the situation until Ultraworld, however, during the last few episodes of that series there is a perceptible change, as Tarrant and the others start to accept Avon as leader.
There's no
reason to think that Tarrant didn't make the decision about Obsidian.
Also, let's not forget that Dayna's father knew Hower. Which is a good reason for her to go.
Both true.
The theory that Avon's more willing to risk them than Cally and Vila
seems
at odds with the fact that Avon risked himself to check up on Tarrant and Dayna. but didn't do the same for Cally.
Ah, but the situations are different here, in that Avon's visit to the surface of Obsidian is ostensibly to do a bit of reconnaisance. When he discovers that the Federation are there however, he soon gives up his search and comes back. He doesn't go after Cally because firstly he's got repairs to do to the ship, and secondly he knows that she had been captured by a Federation commando unit. If Tarrant and Dayna want to get their heads shot off trying to rescue her, then, they can; he, however, is going to stay on the ship, and fly off if they aren't back in an hour.
I always thought that Avon was most protective of Dayna over other members of the crew.
Is that why he sent her into a trap in Stardrive? Is that why he didn't even blink when she was gunned down on Gauda Prime?
He might have felt more responsibility for her since his presence on
Sarran contributed to her
ending up with the crew.
Now why would he do that :-)?
Jenny
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