Carol Mc wrote re Avon:

Except he didn't get it right any more often than any of our other rebel

leaders. Avon lost Liberator, Cally and Scorpio (to name just a few of the times when he was less than competent).<

That's true. I blame the Ultra - neither Avon nor Cally seem to recover completely from having their mind sucked out. In Moloch both are extraordinarlily slow, Cally not starting straight away on changing the teleport wavelength and Avon forgetting to check for surveillance devices. In Death Watch Avon goes about like a zombie and Cally doesn't seem much more awake. Terminal has Avon acting at his most stupid, and after that it's downhill all the way.

This leads me to the conclusion that during the extraction or reinstallation of Avon's mind some vital part must have been damaged irreversibly. (There, I knew I could come up with an excuse for Terminal :-) )

Marian