Sally M wrote:
Nico wrote: "Perhaps during the long interim times (e.g. when they followed Servalan for weeks ('Moloch') they put their feet up and talked desultorily of their pasts, homes, family,"
<g> can't you just hear it? Vila's reminiscences can't be trusted
An aside--why do people think this? He's very honest about being a thief, and doesn't tell tall stories. I think what we hear about him is quite consistent. He was a Delta (he never claimed otherwise), he was in the JD wards and at least one other penal colony. I see the ignorance rating (4th or 5th grade) as separate from the Delta grading. I don't see why Space Command wouldn't draft Deltas into their ranks (most would probably be quite eager--join Space Fleet and see the galaxy--and we saw some officers who were probably lower grades e.g. S2 Travis), and Vila certainly had the intelligence (if not the courage or inclination) to be an officer. I can see that he'd buy an ignorance rating (as opposed to grading) which would disqualify him.
I can see Vila rabbiting on about anything under the suns except his personal life. I think he's as private as Avon in his way but uses a different strategy (a very successful one) to deflect interest).
Avon thinks it's none of *their* business.
Absolutely! He might listen to the others though without acknowledging his interest.
Dayna's would be soporific (50 different ways to kill Sarrans)
Poor Dayna wouldn't have much to talk about. Did they even get viscasts on Sarran?
the others learn fast that the words "my people have a saying" is a good cue to find something important to do at the other end of the ship),
And I'd react the same way much as I like Cally.
Tarrant finds it hard to remember to avoid the words "when I was in the FSA"
LOL!
And the poor dears don't even have the weather.
Oh, no?
Blake: That was a pretty severe meteor storm.
Vila: Not as bad as that one you made us go through on the way to Destiny. Made me sick to the stomach.
Gan: You shouldn't have eaten a whole packet of biscuits just before it, Vila.
Jenna: You think that was bad? Let me tell you about the time I was smuggling black gold for the Amagons. In one trip we hit meteor storms, black holes, a supernova that wasn't on the charts, and a really thick nebula--visibility was down to 5000 spacials.
Cally: My people tell stories of clouds which slowly digest spaceships.
Vila: If you're trying to scare me, Cally--you're succeeding.
Avon: Yes, well. Some people will believe anything.
Nico
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