--- Sally Manton smanton@hotmail.com wrote:
Okay, my last word on the subject. And I'm *not* trying to be offensive, forgive me if I am,
OK, mine too then. And ditto.
No, what *I* (and I can only speak for myself) saw was that you were insisting that my interpretation was invalid - and ideologically suspect!! - because it wasn't in accordance with what you'd decided the facts of the episode were.
Funny, but that's exactly my prblem with some of the arguments that have been put forward. At least one person put it forward *as fact* that Meegat was asked to go and didn't; another put it forward *as fact* that Avon was awed and humbled at the responsibility he was given. Neither of which, we both agree, are *facts.*
So I take it that you mean that it is OK for certain people whom I will not single out (but who share *your* opinion) to present an inference as fact, but I can't defend my own arguements with anything less than hard-boilde, set-in-concrete-and-signed-by-Terry-Nation fact.
There's no need for some insidious Meegating to explain why I said I liked to believe that that Gan, Jenna and Cally - none of whom are bastards - or Blake - who unquestionably is, but not in that way
- would also not have
chosen to dump Meegat to die whether she wanted to or not (it's Blake's ship, and Gan is always ready to argue for what he thinks should be done), and that it's entirely possible that she did not wish to leave her home for god-only-knows-what. That's my interpretation, which is entirely consistent both with the facts of the episode as I see them, and *with the characters*
- all of the characters - as I understand them,
which I have always maintained is equally important *to me*.
I agree with your analysis of Blake, Jenna, Gan and Cally's characters, and Meegat's possible response. But none of them are at issue here. Of course the story would have been different if Jenna had been the rocket launcher. But she wasn't, so there's not much point in arguing about it.
And for the record, none of the characters you named seemed too broken up about leaving people on Cygnus Alpha, the planet in Web, Horizon, and so forth. Once they had got what they wanted, they're not interested about what happens next. Why should it be different here?
<it's very surprising that, if they did do it, there wasn't some mention or other indication that they had done so.>
So how does that invalidate the assumption that they were asked, and didn't want to go? Why *can't* I assume that if I want to, and if it makes way more sense to me than your version?
Nobody's stopping you :-). If you have your version, and you've thought it through and you still think it makes more sense, go ahead. Just don't go blindly accepting that an episode is good just because some people say it is.
If we both agree that that is not true - that each of our versions is valid to ourselves, *without* imputing dubious personal reasons why the other doesn't see the subtext our way, then there's no problem ...
For the record, I agree that I may have come across kind of more extreme at times than the arguement needed. But it is only by challenging a theory and seeing if it holds up to all the possible arguments that you know it's valid. Quite a few theories that came up on this thread have developed a few holes.
Wendy
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