"Dana Shilling" dshilling@worldnet.att.net wrote:
Sally said: (...and I agree that Harriet's re-structuring of Voice would improve the arc of the series)
Avon breals out in a quite un-Avonish way, dragging Vila (okay, so it wasn't *hard* to drag Vila) with him in Gambit.
If you're going to describe someone as selfish and mercenary you have to show him completing a selfish and mercenary action (not just thinking out loud about them)
Though there is one small hint that the different rebel factions are not exactly friends (or even friend-ish) with Avon's blunt "you are the *only* one they will all follow." Possibly Blake's *lack* of conventional ideological stance, the fact that he and the Liberator are somewhat apart from *all* rebel groups, and his lengendary status ensures that he can
stay
out of whatever back-stabbing and political skullduggery is going on :-)
However, I wonder if there isn't some bad feeling about Blake having the best spaceship in the Universe and not sharing it with the other rebel factions. Talk about bogarting the joint.
-(Y)
And if one considers the situation among the various Socialist/Communist groups in the mid-late 19th century - all sorts of backbiting and fights going on. (and in the Russian Bolshevik-Menshevik split: literally 'Majority-Minority: guess whether Lenin actually had the larger section) there would probably be similar divisions among the rebel groups against the Federation.
Jacqui
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