One thing I've noticed about Cally, the woman had a woefully underdeveloped sense of selfpreservation. It's not just a sense of selfsacrifice, a willingness to lay down her life for something else. Blake and some of the others have that but they give the impression of seeing their lives as something they are willing to exchange for a goal, a coin to be well spent.

Cally, OTOH, gives the impression sometimes as not placing any particular value on hers at all. She's not suicidal (except maybe in her first episode). Within the context of the series, I'd say she was too used to the sense of the group on Auron. Connected to that, she valued her life in an altruistic way. That is, she (and most other Aurons) were taught to put a high value on the lives of others and on self-sacrifice. As part of the group, she felt the altruisitic value others put on her life and valued it in context of the group (am I making sense?).

Cut off from that, she had an undeveloped sense of self, at least in this respect. So, Blake could come up with a risky plan and she might criticize it for its risks to others or its overall wisdom but never for its risk to herself. That didn't even enter the calculations.

I have no idea where the writers were coming from.

I got to thinking about this because, in various stories I work with, Cally always seems to be getting into trouble. She avoids offensive tactics on her own behalf and seems inclined to wait too long before getting to defensive ones.

Any thoughts?

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