Annie wrote: <Yes, but I always found it interesting that Vila seemed to *enjoy* that position *and* he seemed to be relatively good at it. It always seemed so "not" Vila.> But he did seem to enjoy it ("I've been looking forward to this", The Web). Maybe because it's more like Space Invaders than real fighting, but still more exciting more exciting than Gan's or Cally's jobs, and Blake was canny enough to realise Vila would work far better at something he enjoyed; put him on communications and he'd probably doze off like in the teleport ...

<Then again, didn't we even see Vila pilot the ship a time or two later on? I suppose they all had to learn every position!>

It appears they all had a working knowledge; I like the way at the end of Shadow, he and Avon head straight for each others' positions without even thinking about it, as they're the nearest.

PS - still don't see why Blake couldn't go and raise the forcewall while doing the command bit, but there *must* have been a good reason, or Avon would have said something rather evil about it very early ...

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