M wrote
Stephen Date (I'm a bit confused as to whose talking here, but I'll answer it anyway.) wrote:
IMO - Gan is mentally altered because of the limiter malfunctioning.
That is one of a number of explanations put forward in Breakdown.
As I
see it, Gan, although can't hurt another,
Yes he can. He fights with people. Knocks them out. Causes them pain. Appears to kill someone in Cygnus Alpha.
couldn't have been altered to be
that good while still leaving him with thoughts against the Federation.
He doesn't have thoughts against the Federation. That's a fallacy. He sticks with Blake because, "I have to, I want to stay alive and to do that I need people I can rely on. I can't be on my own." And where does it say that the security guard he killed was Federation. "Oh, that's bloody obvious! What other security guards would there be?" The security guards we see at Vaga's court perhaps?
We have so little information on what actually happened with Gan, that he could just as easily have been making it up out of whole cloth based on the events of Cygnus Alpha. The monk that killed Kara becomes the guard that kills his "woman"; at no time in the script for Cygnus Alpha is Gan told Kara's name. We have a plausible story from Gan which resembles the events of Cygnus Alpha either by coincidence or design, but that's all we have.
If
they'd altered him that much why doesn't he sing the Federations praises.
Because Gan is not a political enemy of the Federation.
Further to this when I listened to The Mark of Kane - you know, well some of >you know, when Gan's described as a psychopath, I felt this was
abhorrent
to the character
I think it fits exactly.
I knew and at the end, a;though this is totally me reading
into it, what the guy means by Gan being his friend, is that the other
guy
was lying about a good guy and so it doesn't matter he's dead (sorry cant remember the exact quotes, havnt listened to it in a while).
I think Stevens and Tully were playing the double game as well. What you have in 'The Mark of Kane' and 'Blake', is the idea that Blake doesn't trust people anymore. He has lost his faith in human nature. The idea that Gan was the Catstrangler is another attack on Blake's faith. Blake had a man aboard his ship who was really a sadistic killer, and Blake never knew it. But he's also not entirely sure that it is true, and what this says about his new friend Tando. In 'Blake' he appears to have reached a decision. Blake shoots Tando down. "Oh, it was Tando you killed. -- He was worse than the people he hunted."
Jenny
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