Sally Manton wrote:
A thought that occurred to me while going through the pictures, one point of similarity between this episode and Terminal, two of Servalan's elaborate, seemingly successful and ultimately failed plots.
Though Carnell blames it on the fact that no one told him about 'the girl' it's interesting that in both cases Servalan's plan hinges on using Blake-as-bait, and in both cases, *that's* what screws up her plan before it even gets going, though no one knows it. In Terminal, her use of Blake's importance to Avon (which she both calculates *and* miscalclates) pushes him to drive the Liberator through the cloud of ick, ensuring the ship's destruction even before they reach Terminal where she's waiting.
And another way in which she miscalculates Blake's importance - she is completely taken by surprise when Avon tells Vila to take the Liberator and run. Surely I am not the only person who thinks that action of Avon's was about not letting Blake down as much as anything else?
Mistral