Honey Bunny "Sally Manton" Wrote:
At the risk of flogging what is unquestionably now a dead horse,
This horse is very much alive and about to bite you on the arse.
we might
let the last word go to ...
Terry Nation.
"Gan, the big guy, was the physical presence and great physical strength, but the gentle baby of the piece, based a little on Lenny from 'Of Mice
and
Men''." (Blake's 7: The Inside Story).
He was. Sally, have you ever *read* "Of Mice and Men"?
Lenny is the mentally retarded giant with enormous strength, who is continually killing pets and small animals by accident, unable to understand what he is doing. He crushes a man's hand in a rage, and, in the climax of the book, when a woman gets into a sexual clinch with him, he strangles her and hides the body in a desperate panic-- knowing that he has done wrong but being unable to stop himself. If this is who Nation has based Gan on... I think you need to rethink your fanon. And I need to rethink my earlier statement that Nation never suggested that Gan was a murdering psychopath. He has, but he's playing the double game still.
Either Nation and Boucher are just playing a game with us, or it was all leading up to something. If it was leading up to something, what was it? and why didn't it happen?
Any guesses?
Jenny
_________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.