Stephen Date wrote:
--- Jenny Kaye wrote: >
That would have been Terry Nation and Chris
Boucher.
Forgive me. I didn't realise they actually had
said as much.
Perhaps you should watch the series again?
How would that help? Do they make Hitchcockesque appearances in Deathwatch, explaining that Gan was really Jack the Ripper ?
Yes. They appear from time to dressed in rubber Gan costumes:-)
Incidentally your argument,
which is a good one
Thank you.
if somewhat over elaborate,
The theory is simple. The elaboration is just me covering every angle.
would
be improved hugely if you refrained from suggesting that people who disagree with you are guilty of bad faith or not paying attention.
Why? They are.
The whole point about
debate is you need two sides.
New experience for Lysator IMO.
It would be helpful if you could cite interviews where either of the two suggested that Gan was not quite as wholesome as he seemed.
There aren't any. I'm arguing from text.
I am not doubting your
veracity, I would just like to know.
Again there aren't any. And if we all go through the series together you'll find out why.
And in all 18 episodes never gives her name, or
refers to it again.
Using lack of evidence as evidence in itself is
not usually a good idea.
It's not lack of evidence, it's negative evidence, there's a difference. We're talking a character-defining moment here. And it's very interesting that we had just seen very similar events happening on Cygnus Alpha (Gan connects with a woman whose name he doesn't know,
How do we know this ? Gan and the others spend a considerable period of time on Cygnus Alpha. We know that Kara is attracted to Gan and that she has gone to the trouble of finding out his name.
Agreed. But how do we know that she has gone to this trouble? Because the scriptwriter has put a scene in the script where she calls out his name.
Might she not
have exchanged a few words with him ?
She "might" have done anything. They "might" have had a sex session while suspended upside-down from a chandelier. She "might" be a killer penguin in disguise.
Or introduced
herself ?
She introduced herself by kissing him.
It's not as if she's playing hard to get.
One chaste kiss doesn't make a torrid sexual affair.
The fact that she takes a spear for him suggests the relationship has gone further than the kiss (I don't necessarily mean physically).
She shouts a warning cry. It was just unfortunate that the spear carried on and killed her instead. She didn't throw herself in front of it to protect Gan or anything.
To use the only other example we have of the
crew's past love lives...how
often does Avon speak about Anna other than in
the episode we actually see
her?
Countdown, Children of Auron. Haven't been paying attention have you:-)?
Au contraire, Leia has been paying attention. Avon speaks about Anna in those episodes when it is necessary to the plot.
That's what I mean.
In Countdown he cannot avoid
the subject,
That's right, it is a major plot point.
in CoA the crew are on route to earth and
in RoD Avon goes after Anna's killer.
Why are they going there? They could be going anywhere. It doesn't have to be that reason. It is because the story is foreshadowing RoD.
Otherwise the
subject doesn't ever come up.
B7 isn't real life. Something will in the most part only be mentioned if it has a reason to be mentioned.
Not even when he is
sharing a moment of intimacy with Cally in Sarcophagus.
That's right.
Blake doesn't refer to his family after
Space Fall,
That's right.
Avon doesn't refer to his brother after
Space Fall,
That's right.
Jenna doesn't refer to her mother after
Space Fall,
That's right.
Cally doesn't refer to the events on
Saurian Major after Time Squad,
You haven't been paying attention have you. She mentions Saurian Major in CoA.
Tarrant refers to his brother's death once in Sand,
Character point. It would have been unusual if he hadn't.
Cally doesn't refer to
the death of her sister after CoA.
That's right.
No-one mentions
Jenna after Powerplay until Blake tells Tarrant about her death.
There is a good reason for that. If you keep banging on about a character that isn't going to return, people start to miss her and say things like, "I wish Jenna was back in this programme. It's not the same without her."
Gan's non reference to 'his woman' after
Time Squad is the norm, not the exception.
That's the double game for you.
Want to go through the capsule scene in Time Squad now?
Jenny
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