Neil wrote:
The decision to shoot was, I think, both conscious and deliberate, but in his mind he was not shooting the
Blake
he had known in the past and had hoped to find again, but a stranger who had, albeit unwittingly, turned everything upside down amid chaotic and stressful circumstances.
... and I think he has just blown his cover. Pretending not to be a character junkie, indeed!
Ellynne, then Neil:
But, I think it's also more than he can take as a character.
I have always seen that as a case of fannish wishful thinking.
I agree with Neil, though I'm not sure that this was quite what Ellynne was trying to say? However one might try to explain or excuse, it happened, and Avonfen (me included) just have to put up with the implications for the character of Our Favourite Love/Lust Object.
I recently saw Hamlet (the version with Gareth Thomas), with Hamlet played as entirely rational throughout nearly all the action. However much one sympathises with Hamlet, in that take, it was hard not to blame Hamlet for the deaths of Polonius (directly) and Ophelia (indirectly).
The only way I personally could absolve Avon would be if he were clinically insane at that point, and (not much wishing to get into this debate) I tend to the view that he is highly stressed, emotionally exhausted, but not insane.
Tavia