Sally Manton wrote:
Harriere wrote: <When Gan discusses the issue with Jenna, they're acquaintances; maybe he might have opened up more later, but at this point he wishes to give her only the basic information required.>
They're a reticent crowd, after all. We never hear the names of Blake's murdered siblings,
Blake is hardly going to say, "Guess what everyone? I was arrested and convicted on paedophile charges. They weren't true of course." Mud sticks.
or Avon's brother; neither those relatives nor Jenna's
mother are ever mentioned again, nor are *any* family/friends of
chatterer
Vila. Cally never mentions her clone sister till they're off to Auron; Tarrant never mentions his brother till faced with his image in
DeathWatch,
and the rest of the Tarrant clan is a closed book (which is lovely for fanfiction, because we can shoehorn Dev in there somehow). None of the Scorpio crew (except possibly Avon) knew Soolin's history on Gauda Prime, for all that she'd been with them a year and was friendly
with
Dayna.
These people are fictional characters within a fictional universe. Backstory seeds may be sown, but the full back story will only be activated when it is significant to the plot. For example Soolin's history tells us about GP and what we can expect. As a consequence Gan telling us about his "woman" is significant to the episode Time Squad, and Gan's actions in Time Squad are designed to tell us about Gan, or to lay future plot seeds for Gan.
Jenny
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