Jenny Kaye wrote:
Mistral wrote:
Do you think it could be because Vila is talking crap?
Actually, you're making an assumption that Vila was trying to distract Avon, and so your question is inherently biased. I don't agree with that assumption; I simply think he was breaking off a tangential discussion that was going away from what he really wanted to talk about
How can you possibly say that you know what he "really" wanted to talk about? All you can go by is what's on the screen.
Exactly. There's a difference between text and interpretation. Text is that Vila changed the direction of the conversation (from his own grading to Tarrant's trustworthiness). Whether it was because he wanted to talk about something else, or because he wanted to distract Avon, are _both_ interpretation. If you can see that my interpretation has added a layer of meaning to what's on the screen, you should be able to see that about your own; and should therefore realize that 'Vila distracting Avon' is opinion, not fact, and therefore not a stable platform from which to argue.
None of us are in the business of constructing "tortuous and long-winded" explanations, as you put it, for character behaviour. We each look at the screen and see something different, because we each have different perspectives and experiences, and thus see the characters and their actions differently. In order to agree with your version of this scene, I'd have to remodel my Vila and Avon considerably; however they fit rather well with my version (as I'm sure Sally's do with hers, etc., etc.)
If the discussions themselves become tortuous and long-winded, it's perhaps because it's sometimes difficult to take off the lens of one personal canon and put on the lens of another personal canon, particularly if one has forgotten one is looking through a lens.
Mistral