At 05:52 PM 6/15/01 -0400, Susan Beth wrote:
Yes, I could see Blake and Avon as Mulder & Scully....of course, the plots would change a lot.
For instance, in lieu of the Liberator, Avon inherits a desk.
Blake's not nearly as prone to mournful kicked-puppy-dog passive suffering as Mulder, and far more likely to aggressively go after the conspirators openly and publicly.
Yeah, I can't really see Blake spending seven seasons sulking in the Federational Bureau of Investigation's basement. Maybe Cally would make a better Mulder. Blake can be Skinner (both can be operated by remote-control...okay, I admit, that's desperation talking).
Which probably would get him snuffed rather quickly.
Nah. Blake's improbable good fortune is surely about equal to Mulder's.
I think I phrased that point badly. The 'morality' hasn't to do with what the Lost Soul himself does, it's that he feels the world/some set of it has broken the rules in dealing with *him*. He thinks he has suffered unjustly, had something stolen from him, been cheated out of what should have been his, and so on.
Ah yes, now that does sound more like T-2 than Avon.
He's aggrieved. [Is that almost a pun?]
"One more pun and I pull out my gun." --Mulder (;-p)
I don't see that attitude in Avon. He was consciously breaking the rules, and accepts that his punishment was deserved
"I knew it was wrong, but I did it anyhow." --(probably paraphrasing) Raoul Duke
I guess when I nominated Avon for (transitory) Lost Soul status (according to the excerpts I was given) I was primarily thinking of "Rumours of Death": "...tremendous physical or emotional injury..." (emotional, obviously); "...loves fiercely and hates just as passionately..." (even if, as Ellynne says, he don't exactly wear it on his sleeve (;-p)), et cetera. Your "Bad Boy/Professor" reading does actually fit him better over all (although Ellynne does present a darn good case...). -- "You mix your laundry list with your grocery list and you'll end up eating your underwear for breakfast."