Natasa wrote: <Another problem - given that the three of them have spent those (also problematic) four months aboard the Liberator before reaching Cygnus Alpha, how come no one has spotted the treasure room sooner?>

Or the Wardrobe Room, or the panel that got Zen started, or ...

I'm muddling over the possibility that Zen somehow concealed these things while he/it was watching these new people and making a decision on what to do with them; this is why they were able to access the food and water and air, since - following Blake's defeat of the defence system - Zen was considering whether he/they might be worthwhile. The panel that Jenna touched was the first sign that Zen had decided to accept them and made it visible, the other things (Wardrobe and Treasure) being released (or even created) after a quick look at Jenna's mind told him that these new humans liked clothes and money :-)

The problem is, Our Heroes don't *act* as if they've been there for months; they're still in initial exploration stage, as if they haven't been there more than a day or two at most. When Avon finds the gun-rack, there's no "where the hell has that been all this time???" for instance.

Occasionally, despite one's devotion to Playing the Game, one has to simply shut one's ears and pretend something on screen wasn't like that (e g Travis's galaxy blooper in Duel, the mess that is Cally's backstory). The time-line screw-ups in all of the Spacefall-SLD episodes are ultimately unfixable, methinks ...

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