In a message dated 9/29/01 8:39:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Wildean@btopenworld.com writes:

<< SERVALAN: You don't sound surprised. AVON: Why should I be? It has a perverse kind of logic to it. Our meeting is the most unlikely happening I could imagine. Therefore we meet. Surprise seems inappropriate somehow.<<

Actually, I always interpreted this as a very Kerr Avon way of saying "As usual, my luck sucks like a black hole."

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Avon must still be recovering from his injuries. There

are far more improbable things I could imagine here...

Every grain of sand on the beach could instantly transform into cucumber blancmange and begin a song and dance routine.<<

This happened on Vern. The song and dance routine was rewritten at the last minute and the sand transformed into a collective fanfic writer who wanted to see Tarrant and Servalan have dinner and boink each other, instead.

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Avon could have been spontaneously coated in barnacle-proof

paint (and therefore not need to spend the years after Gauda Prime having barnacles scraped from his bottom).

I'm sure everyone would agree that this is a novel explanation for Avon's increasingly erratic behaviour in the fourth series - a missing episode - "Barnacles"<<

It's a little-known fact that Avon actually sent Dr. Plaxton out to scrape those barnacles off the aft end of the Scorpio. As originally written, he had desperately recruited her as a medical specialist to scrape said barnacles off of his *own* aft end, but the BBC wouldn't let it past.

Leah