Fiona wrote: <So what you're saying is, Avon's not going to take her along unless she's of practical use to the crew? Then all that lovey-dovey hand-holding doesn't count for too much :).>
<blank look> but of *course* he's not going to want her on the ship unless she's of use. This is Avon, the one who considered spacing the London prisoners for his own benefit and airlocking *a friend* for his own safety.
There seems to be a misconception that liking Avon means seeing him as Percival Pureheart in all things. Just because one doesn't agree that his actions in Deliverance are Deeply Appalling doesn't mean that one doesn't recognise other times when they are (Power, anyone?)
And to be honest, bleeding heart or no, Blake isn't likely to agree to a 'lily of the field' on a fighting ship either. Nor Jenna. (Vila and Gan, maybe :-)). If she's of no use on the Liberator, she has no place there. That's the reality of the situation they're in.
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Sally said:
<blank look> but of *course* he's not going to want her on the ship unless she's of use. This is Avon, the one who considered spacing the London prisoners for his own benefit
I don't think he really considered it seriously--more something to cheer himself up with at a bad time. And, after all, the same thought occurred to Blake
and airlocking *a friend* for his own safety.
The reason that medals are awarded for saving someone else at the risk of one's own life is that this is, in fact, behavior that is unusual as well as meritorious
And to be honest, bleeding heart or no, Blake isn't likely to agree to a 'lily of the field' on a fighting ship either.
Even though Blake often seems to think of himself as whatever they have instead of an INtergalactic Red Cross, the fact is that he's trying to destroy the Federation, and he certainly can't schlepp around the entire population of every ecologically unsound planet while he's trying to do that.
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Fiona wrote: <So what you're saying is, Avon's not going to take her along unless she's of practical use to the crew? Then all that lovey-dovey hand-holding
doesn't
count for too much :).>
<blank look> but of *course* he's not going to want her on the ship unless she's of use. This is Avon, the one who considered spacing the London prisoners for his own benefit and airlocking *a friend* for his own
safety.
Perhaps that's why she no longer considered him a god-- because he didn't take her with her...
Fiona
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