Ellynne wrote:

Avon and Ray I have a lot in common (cynics, a background environment where corruption is taken for granted, partners they didn't want who reek of naive optimism, girlfriends with mixed loyalties whose deaths they're somewhat responsible for, a really neat vehicle that was all his but that got blown up as the only way to defeat the bad guys, etc). The ongoing joke being that, while Avon seems to spend half his time finding out he was (if anything) being too lenient in his character judgements, Ray has to deal with Fraser always being right.

Not a comparison I would ever have made, though I see it now you mention it. Ray V always strikes me as having something of Vila about him - constantly whining about the trouble Fraser drags him into but never doing anything actively to stop it <g>.

In one episode, they're trying to hitch a ride and all the cars just drive right past. Finally, Ray pulls out his gun and says he stopping the next car no matter what. Fraser feels this isn't the way to do it. Then, while they're fighting over the gun, a car finally pulls over and the driver, in a very strong Canadian accent, asks if they need help.

Ray turns to Fraser and tells him he comes from a sick country.

The Man Who Knew Too Little. I must have seen that ep about 10 times and I still laugh from start to finish every single time. I guess that's one of the reasons I love the series - the jokes stand up to repeated viewings and they leave you in such a good mood. Though I probably wouldn't be so fannish about it DS it weren't the fact that when the writers _did_ decide to do angst on a few occasions, they hit you round the head with a sledgehammer in a very B7 way. Nothing as dramatic as Blake but it comes close....

<snip very very funny snippet of Fraser and Ray as Blake and Avon>

That's exactly how B7 would be in the DS universe :-)

Louise