-----Original Message----- From: Dana Shilling [mailto:dshilling@worldnet.att.net] Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2001 03:09 To: nublake Subject: Re: [B7L] Character Change & Development - mostly Avon

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Well, Cally does go from highly-strung, intense,

'companions-for-my-death'

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guerrilla fighter to righteous ersatz earth-mother, but

that, methinks, has

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more to do with Bad Writer Syndrome than character development

Or Multiple Possession Trauma

Totally agree! The 'girls' were badly done by in the series, even Dayna at times. And I counted 5 alien possessions for Cally and a couple for Vila for that matter (and I suspect a third).

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Absolutely. The greater harshness of his voice and manners

in the later episodes is rather too striking to miss. Just you try having a job where you get more concussions than tea breaks.

Yes! So someone else noticed! At least I assume you were talking about Vila? (I've just joined). Because Vila *is* the one who got regularly clobbered.

Poor Vilakins. Multiple head injuries, loneliness, rejection, possible a victim of class snobbery (probably unconscious) and all the drudge work. No wonder the poor sod took to the bottle.

Re the concussions - I'm writing a humorous B7 series called "Vila Restal's E-mails" (I'm about to finish season 3) which comprises all the e-mails he sends from and within the Liberator (later Scorpio) and gets back. Vila keeps a 'running head injury total' for his concerned mum, and it's up to 11. He says he almost kept an 'alien possession total' on Cally but thought it would be mean. If he had, it would be 5.

BTW excerpts of this have been printed in an SF zine here. When it's finished, I may put it on the web with a link to the hermit library.

Nico

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