Helen Krummenacker wrote:
Just because I wasn't keen on the aliens doesn't mean I didn't like Duel.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you, specifically, hated "Duel" or anything. It's just that I've often seen the episode criticized quite strongly, and I'm rather at a loss to understand it...
Great moments from it include:
[snip list of great moments]
I'd also include:
* Blake laughing at Travis and saying "why don't you try stamping your foot?" * The Avon moment I mentioned earlier, as he's watching Blake not kill Travis. Also the "proving you care" line. And the image of Blake and Travis sitting in trees throwing nuts at each other. * The nice bits of Blake-Jenna bonding (also in the tree). * "I've seen friends die." (Lovely delivery by GT on that line, IMO.)
I also like the planet (the dead-civilization part, as opposed to the woodsy part, assuming that was even still the same planet). I, personally, found it very appropriately spooky. And, yes, Giroc is probably somewhere on the list of my favorite guest characters. It's that cheerfully malicious laugh, I think.
I do think it's got the best space battle in the series, too.