Okay, my last word on the subject. And I'm *not* trying to be offensive, forgive me if I am, I'm just trying to put it plainly. (Anyone who wants to skip this, go ahead - it ain't my usual brand of burbling).
Wendy wrote: <Fair enough, but I'm kind of confused about what I'm being accused of here. First I'm accused of attacking Avon for saying hes' less than nice, then I'm accused of attacking the plot (grumble grumble).>
No, what *I* (and I can only speak for myself) saw was that you were insisting that my interpretation was invalid - and ideologically suspect!! - because it wasn't in accordance with what you'd decided the facts of the episode were.
You seemed to be saying - repeatedly - that your version is *the facts* (and I quote: "the story stands: A woman needs a man to fire off her rocket and fertilise her race. A man comes along, fulfils this need, then smegs off, leaving her on a radiation-soaked planet without even asking if she, or anyone else she knows for that matter, wants his number." This is *not* canon, this is your embellished version of the story. You have a perfect right to your version, but you don't have to insist that if others don't agree to it it's purely because they've "imagined in their own minds to fill the plot holes for themselves to make them feel better, and/or to whitewash Avon." (Which is distinctly patronising, BTW).
There's no need for some insidious Meegating to explain why I said I liked to believe that that Gan, Jenna and Cally - none of whom are bastards - or Blake - who unquestionably is, but not in that way - would also not have chosen to dump Meegat to die whether she wanted to or not (it's Blake's ship, and Gan is always ready to argue for what he thinks should be done), and that it's entirely possible that she did not wish to leave her home for god-only-knows-what. That's my interpretation, which is entirely consistent both with the facts of the episode as I see them, and *with the characters* - all of the characters - as I understand them, which I have always maintained is equally important *to me*.
<it's very surprising that, if they did do it, there wasn't some mention or other indication that they had done so.>
So how does that invalidate the assumption that they were asked, and didn't want to go? Why *can't* I assume that if I want to, and if it makes way more sense to me than your version?
<But the point is, the end is still loose.>
Agreed. You appeared to be arguing that it *wasn't* loose, it was firmly tied, and only one version of the unseen facts was acceptable. If that wasn't what you meant, I apologise, but that was how it appeared to me.
If we both agree that that is not true - that each of our versions is valid to ourselves, *without* imputing dubious personal reasons why the other doesn't see the subtext our way, then there's no problem ...
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