From: Stephen Date stephend999@yahoo.co.uk
--- Neil Faulkner N.Faulkner@tesco.net wrote: >
With the Federation effectively absent from this episode (except in the Servalan-Travis scenes, remote from all the action on Cephlon), our heroes effectively become the Establishment for the purposes of this episode.
Nice Try ! Unfortunately the action of this story occurs because of Servalan's desire to get Orac and her actions in placing a bomb on Ensor Jnr's ship. This leads the crew to go down to Cephlon to rescue any survivors. The entire episode is a result of Federation machinations.
Nice try yourself, but the Federation are not on Cephlon and the crew are not in direct conflict with them.
They are not renegades in Deliverance, but explorers. And they go down to the planet with the conventional attitudes of their society largely intact.
These being the conventional attitudes that got them sent to Cygnus Alpha presumably ?
At this point I start to think you really might be setting out to be wilfully obtuse. If you really need a real world parallel, try bearing in mind that the average East End gangster is at the staunchly conventional end of the ideological spectrum.
How can you decide that Deliverance is a reinterpretation of reality if you have not first established what that reality is ?
Ever more wilfully obtuse by the second. Deliverance is not a reinterpretation of reality, but a derivation of the reinterpretation. So it's the reinterpretation that it needs to be measured up against, first and foremost, to assess points of comparison with that reinterpretation.
Quite possibly the kind of thing a young Terry Nation might have read.
I agree, but I would humbly suggest that unlike those yarns it does not prosletyse for Imperial expansion, colonialism or the attitude that made those possible.
It doesn't have to.
Genre is not the same as ideology. Suggesting that Deliverance is the same as Allan Quartemain because they share narrative features in common is like suggesting that Iain M. Banks and Ken McLeod share the politics of, say, Robert Henlein because they all write science fiction.
Ideology is not the same as political doctrine. A Nazi and a Communist in 1930s Germany might be polarised in terms of doctrine, but that polarity emerges from a common ideology of the industrialised west. Ideology is the matrix in which doctrine is formulated.
Neil
JMO.
Stephen.
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