Wendy wrote: <That's your interpretation, not necessarily Terry Nation's. It seems to me that you are reinterpreting a disturbing scenario to make it more comfortable for yourself.>
Agreed that Terry Nation wrote a sexist plot, but what has that to do with it? That's like saying Paul Darrow played Avon as a silly psychpathic macho Dirty Harry so that's what *we have* to see Avon as.
No we don't. As the viewer, I have the perfect right to read into any episode anything I see, or indeed anything I want/choose to, as long as I can back it up with evidence. After all, you're interpreting it to make it considerably blacker than I do (ps - this is how character discussions get tangled up too :-)) which is your right, but I agree with Neil about not seeing your Freudian overtones. So what? You do, and you're allowed to.
<You are saying that she is in control and almost assured,yet subservient!>
She's comfortable - he's most definitely *not*. She's falling at his feet and calling him Lord - but *he's* the one doing what *she* wants, remember. Everything is being done *in accordance with her plan*. (Avon says that his arrival is a 'poor reward' - Gan flat out tells her that they're just men. Meegat is not listening, and why should she?)
<This again is your interpretation, but however you interpret it, the fact remains that Avon goes along with it.>
Of course. After all -
1. They're on a radiotive, lethally dangerous world, she's only helped them because she thinks he's/they're her 'gods'. If I was in his shoes, I wouldn't risk too much disillusionment in case I lost that help.
2. They're trying to work out what she wants them to do for her (i e they're trying to help her). To do that, they need the full story, to get that they need her trust.
3. As said above, once they do have the story straight, Gan does try to disillusion her. She doesn't hear what she doesn't want to. And you could say that to destroy the illusion she's given her life to - when they're going to be out *of* that life in a number of years - is sheer cruelty.
3. Yes, it's flattering. But remember Blake's last line (and Blake knows his Avon very well). "I don't like the responsibility either." Avon may have found the worshipping flattering (who wouldn't - and be honest, you lot!!) but the whole thing made him unconfortable as well (he's rather taken aback by someone who thinks he's even more wonderful than (he* does!!)
<And how exactly did you figure that, considering that he didn't write in any suggestion at all that she was supposed to go up with it?>
I *said* he screwed it up. Our Heroes don't do things like that <g>
<Again, I don't follow. It would be equally fair to infer (and make a bit more sense, given that nobody seems to have any problems with it) that she was left behind without a second thought.>
That *doesn't* make any sense to me, because it's totally unlike them all. There's no more evidence of your interpretation than mine, and it makes far more sense given the characters involved.
<Since there is no evidence for that, it sounds again more like you're trying to make the story sound less disturbing for yourself.>
Did you miss the <g>? That one was a *joke* (Blake and Gan would have insisted on *having* her out on the flight deck - Vila too, but for his own invidious reasons).
My own opinion is - as said - she and the others didn't want to leave.
The episode is silly in a lot of ways, but I still like it for Avon's decidedly un-godlike embarrassment, Vilakins' teasing and Gan's noble refraining from teasing. It's a character-junkie episode.
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