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Fiona wrote: <If Chris Boucher always saw Travis as someone who had worked his way up fromhe ranks, then Stephen Greif may have been playing him as a man who had disguised his origins and changed his accent, while Brian Croucher was playing him as someone who had stayed true to his origins and taken stick for it.>

A couple of points from this that I find interesting ...

1. To be honest, that *is* a big "if". Yes, he said it and no, I'm not saying he isn't truthful, but it was twenty years ago remember, and quite a few of the people involved have gone through some rich and strange sea-changes of memory since then. (E g Jacqueline Pearce stating that Servie went into black as 'mourning' for the death of her clones, when in fact she was in it for the whole episode in question, before they died). After all this time, I really prefer to see some evidence on-screen for what they tell me (e g again, PD's view of Avon *is* evident in the 4th season when he had more power over the way the character was portrayed, so yes, I believe that he did see it that way in 1980).

2. Chris was the script editor, but Terry Nation (remeber him? the guy who's copping all the 'Deliverance' flak) wrote all of Greif's scripts, someone else directed him to play it the way he did and Greif ... errr ... played it. So Chris's view isn't the be-all of the matter. And from his appearance on the 'Blake's Back' tapes, it's no use asking the actor, 'cause his memory of the whole thing is distinctly fuzzy (not surprising, really. It was what, six episodes filmed twenty *years* ago).

So again, we really don't know what the original intentions were, we have to primarily go by what we each see on film (which means - as with deliverance - we all see what we want to, then shoehorn the facts to fit ...)

JMHO.

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