Mistral wrote:
Heh. <g> Just as an exercise, and bearing in mind that I agree with you that Avon loved Anna ...
None of the above are canonical proof of that. I'm not even entirely sure that I'd use any of them for evidence as to why _I_ believe that Avon loved Anna, as they're too easy to counter. For example, Dayna's comment, "You killed someone he loved." That she _said_ it is canon; that we take it as evidence that Avon loved Anna requires that we _assume_ (i.e. interpret) that (1) she was being honest, and (2) that she knew what she was talking about. The other above examples have similar issues - we can know canonically what people said and did, but the motivations, feelings, knowledge, etc. behind those words and actions can only be interpreted.
Mind you, in light of recent discussions I should probably point out that I only participate in the above sort of exercise because I personally find it entertaining, and you're perfectly entitled to think what you like.
(chuckle) Okay, I don't mind seeing where this goes, it could be interesting :-)
Your point about Dayna saying that Avon loved Anna is canon but 'the fact itself' is not neccessarily so is well taken, however; I would like to take this and the other point regarding the final words spoken between Avon and Anna and see if I can approach this from another way...whilst still keeping within canon. For the sake of clarity, I'm going to extract a few lines from a couple of scripts to help make my point.