Stephen Date wrote:
--- Jenny Kaye wrote: >
Absolutely. The author is playing a double game.
Which means that the text allows for multiple readings
- not one correct reading and then the readings of
other people who haven't been paying attention.
There will only be one correct reading. The reading the author intends. He is only giving you alternatives because he is foreshadowing something to come, and also to make a programme which can be watched either as a one-off or in a series.
"it's not my field" is
intellectual speak for "Whilst I have not
studied the
subject formally, I'm probably still right".
(in
Avon's case we can discount the probably).
Ah. Disagree. Avon sometimes gets it wrong.
Sorry, I was alluding to Avon's lack of humility, not his accuracy. But there is nothing in Breakdown to suggest that he is wrong in this occasion.
No, he probably is right. But as I have stated somewhere else, perhaps the Limiter was working (though badly) at that point and scrambled signals *were* feeding into his brain. But then, when Gan wakes up with no headache, and then starts strangling Cally, this means that the limiter has temporarily stopped working altogether. Whatever it was doing before.
> KAYN: A dangerous psychopath? Certainly. Or
would
> you prefer he'd been > executed?
Kayn also describes the crew as murderers,
maniacs and
mindless destroyers. This is really rather
inaccurate,
even in Season 4.
Yes, but when it comes to a surgical procedure he has to be more precise. If he isn't Renor, who would know these things and with whom he is arguing, would put him right.
He isn't arguing with Renor about surgical procedure. He's arguing with him about politics.
You're not paying attention. They are arguing about politics and he is making reference to a surgical procedure to back up his point.
The dynamic
between Renor and Kayn is quite a complex one.
Not really. I think it's fairly straightforward.
Renor
is obviously upset by Kayn's callousness and is torn between his natural deference to his senior and his objections to Kayn's actions.
I don't think that's the case at all. Renor is Kayn's assistant. When they meet in the Liberator's medical centre they are quite evidently relaxed with each other. "This place is full of pretty girls." says Doctor Renor. At another point Renor say to Kayn, "Order? You've had a change of heart, haven't you? I sure poor old Farren would be delighted with your new concern for the rules". Kayn replies "Farren is a bureaucratic fool." They are open with each other, which indicates that they have worked together for some time. That's why it develops into an argument. Renor says, "I'll warn Blake," but Kayn knows him too well, "And lose the chance of working with the greatest surgeon you'll ever see? You're too ambitious for that."
It would be wrong (from
the writers point of view) to have Renor take Kayn literally and suggest that he has made an incorrect diagnosis.
Crap. I expect better from you Stephen :-).
Also Kayn is a neuro-surgeon, not a
clinical psychologist and is therefore probably prone to using terms from the other disciplines in a slap dash manner.
Poor supposition. Kayn isn't a real person, he's a character in a episode of Blake's 7. The writer isn't going to come up with some complex bollocks for a one off character that only the writer is going to know, he going to keep the character motivation straightforward. A pro keeps it simple.
simple I can imagine him describing someone as a
schizophrenic, in the popular sense (split personality), rather than the clinical sense in a common room discussion merely to annoy the psychologists present.
No. Because then they would laugh at him. Kayn is arrogant and proud. He wouldn't make a mistake like that. Especially in front of Renor.
Are we going to go through this scene from Time Squad now?
Jenny
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