"Marian de Haan" mariandehaan@chello.nl wrote:
Carol wrote:
Here's an interesting bit--the description of Arlen: "She is in her late teens - a thin harsh girl, fierce and ready to kill." Later we learn this *teen* is a Federation *officer*. Which goes along
with my theory that military officers were put through an accelerated learning process that had them graduating from FSA before students in our era would have begun university.<
Or else they can buy their rank (thanks to family connections?) without having to go through the training.
Re the eye injury/reference to Travis in the script: Chris knew Blake was
going to die at Avon's hands. And he was still expecting a fifth season when he wrote this. He might have been setting it up so that Avon wouldn't look so dastardly for killing Blake. He might have wanted Blake to appear to have followed Travis' path of fanaticism. In word and deed Blake is often shown to be more fanatical than rational in the episode. And that leads to monumental failure. Travis' final act was an attempt to wipe out the human race. Blake's final act is to wipe out his Gauda Prime base and followers. And Avon is the man who rid the series of two "fanatics" who were dangerous to others. <
Considering that Boucher was responsible for Blake's darker side, this makes sense.
Thanks for sharing these details of the rehearsal script with us, Carol.
Marian
And (as I noticed on a previous occasion) in Star One Avon stands briefly across Travis
Jacqui
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