--- "Penberriss Wendy S." wrote: > Oh, *puh-leeze.*
How would you like it if one of the guys started talking about "Jennakins" and calling Cally "My Loveydove?"
I'm sorely tempted to start referring to the fastest gun on Xenon as my ickle Sooleywooley.....Sorry, dizzy spell, did I write something there ?
IHMO*only* - I am about to write something about
Tarrant.
And just what do people have against him?!
He can be intensely annoying. Mind you so can all the other characters which doesn't stop them being popular. I think that he was not always as well written as he could have been. In Volcano, for example, he's very well observed. He has the sort of cynicism of which only the young are capable of (When he melodramatically tells Dayna that the only person he trusts is himself) and he's high handed and tactless with Hower. On the other hand he is unfussily heroic when he rescues Cally and has the sense to realise that Dayna's voices might be useful. In other episodes his bad characteristics are played up at the expense of his good ones - Sarcophagus and Assasin for example. Oh, and of course he must annoy the Avdolators immensely.
Stephen.
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