On Wed 13 Jun, Helen Krummenacker wrote:
Just because I wasn't keen on the aliens doesn't mean I didn't like Duel. Great moments from it include: the ramming manuever, and the arguing on board ship Travis trying to have a conversation with the Mutoid... and his apparent interest in her past. It's interpretaable so maany ways. I always thought he knew her before she'd been altered.
Or he was obsessed by her in some way (possibly a sexual interest) and had broken past the security to discover her background.
Or maybe he had a degree of fellow-feeling with mutoids because of his arm and researched all their backgrounds because he felt they were still people as he was still human.
It sheds interesting lights on Travis whichever interpretation you take.
Judith