--- Natasa wrote:
Another naive detail in the series, IMO, is that the rebellion's leaders all get on so well. From the very beginning, the whole anti-Federation movement is so harmonious:
The exception being the crew of the Liberator of course !
Bran Foster and his comrades discuss how to help the rebels in the Outer Worlds, cultural center doesn't despise the periphery. There are no fractions with opposed ideological views, personal ambitions or dislikes, conflicting local or territorial interests, stuff that usually brings a revolution to a collapse. (Some of these motifs we encounter in S3 and S4, but not while Blake is around.)
Apart from our heroes the rebels are all fairly squeaky clean as well. Grant is a bit of a mercenary but that (bless !) is because he needs to bolster his self esteem. Avalon is a noble idealist. Kasabi apologises to Servalan on her death bed. No-one on Albian is prepared to even countenance scarpering before the Solium device goes off. Blake never has to worry about the morality of his allies torturing Federation prisoners or blowing up civilians. In fact he has to do a deal with an organised crime syndicate to encounter morally dubious individuals.
And then suddenly in Season 3 the resistance is so obsessed with killing they forget to cover their backs when they've seized power and they have to be talked out of killing Servalan when it suits their interests to keep her alive. Which, IMO, shows a greater resemblance to historical revolutionary movements than the season 1 & 2 picture.
Stephen.
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