On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:51:21 -0000 "Neil Faulkner" N.Faulkner@tesco.net writes:
From: Ellynne G. rilliara@juno.com
For me, killing Blake is one step too far (the same if Avon had
killed
Vila). Without extenuating circumstances, this is just more than
I can
take from him.
A death is a death is a death. Who killed whom is immaterial. What makes Avon so special? What makes Blake so special? Avon killed plenty of other people through the course of the series. Come to think of it, so did Blake.
Death in B7 ranged from clearly justified self-defense, military casualties (often [but not always] justified to the extent that Blake's war is justified [a debated point, I know] or that the characters involvement in it is justified), revenge (justification depending on attitudes towards revenge in general and its place in a lawless universe in particular), and expediency (a bad thing, although the rock and a hard place element in B7 keeps all sympathy from vanishing [maybe it shouldn't, but it does]).
I never had any doubts that, by my code or by Avon's more twisted code of ethics (which probably resembles a tesseract version of a rubic's cube), Blake's death was murder - and not just any murder. Murders that occur within a certain bond - a parent who kills a child, a husband who kills his wife - is more terrible than the killing of a stranger because of the bond that's been violated. There's a reason the tragedy of civil war is usually summarized with phrases like 'brother against brother, father against son.'
Leaving me and my feelings out of it, for most of what Avon's done, he can justify himself (if only to himself, see the above list). I don't see him ever justifying the end of Blake to himself (trying, yes, succeeding, no). As for the things I liked about him, I don't see them surviving either (although Avon might).
JMHO.
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