Neil wrote:

This gets into quite interesting territory. If we don't hear what 'really' got said, then maybe we don't see what 'really' happened, and the aired series is some kind of interface between the 'real' events and our ability to make sense of them, a kind of consensually acknowledged construct to accomodate the limits of our comprehension.

So can I sign you up for the Platonic theory of B7, viz that there is a perfect Form of the show of which we saw a vague shadow?

Jarriet