On Wed, 07 Feb 2001 18:09:50 -0700 Helen Krummenacker avona@jps.net writes:

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I see her as being perfectly willing to follow someone who is working *for the cause*, and thus, it was perfectly sensible for her to go along with Blake's leadership in most situations. But when Blake disappeared, it is Cally the good-natured mystic rather than Cally-the-warrior (whom I prefer)

Agreed. I think Cally found herself somewhat at loose ends. She couldn't go back to Auron and, for whatever reasons, couldn't or wouldn't move on to another group. What I find interesting is that, when she did oppose something, it was often _just_ her. She asked Avon if that meant _she_ was just following orders - not _they_. Even when she convinced them to go to Auron, she was the catalyst, not the leader.

Jenna, however, was not in a position to be likely to become a long-term leader. She seems to prefer being a team player.

I always thought of her as having been captain of her own ship before the London, but that's noncanonical.

Being an expert

smuggler does not necessarily make one a leader, and even when she clashed with Avon, it was on loyalty to the team over opportunism.

True. I was going to argue she was more prone to a 'we' outlook than Cally, but this could be argued as team-speak, just as it could be argued Cally's language reflected potentially leading the group instead of being part of the herd.

I still think of her as the stronger, more dominant personality type than Cally.

Cally could have bossed Vila around. Dayna was young and in a very alien environment. If she had any sense, she'd let Cally take the lead. Tarrant? Despite his clashes with Avon, I think his military discipline would have made him accept whoever the ship 'belonged' to. He might have egotistically thought of himself as her more capable advisor (he does have an ego problem, after all) but he would have generally given way. Eventually.

I just don't think Cally would have liked it. I give it two weeks before she offers to pay Tarrant off and starts checking the phone book for any relatives of Dayna.

Ellynne

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