----- Original Message ----- From: Neil Faulkner N.Faulkner@tesco.net To: b7 blakes7@lists.lysator.liu.se Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 8:12 AM Subject: Re: [B7L] Deliverance (still!)
From: Fiona Moore nydersdyner@yahoo.co.uk
This theme is only broken in the very powerful scene of Servalan subtly twisting the knife with Travis-- and as Neil (and Erving Goffman) suggest, this only serves to throw the other scenes into
sharper
relief.
I don't think I was the one to make that point. In fact I largely ignored the S/T scenes because they are mainly there to lay down the background
for
Deliverance and pave the way for the next ep.
Actually you didn't refer to this scene specifically, but I was referring to your well-thought-out explanation of how just because the cowboy isn't shooting the indian it doesn't make him less of a cowboy.
Fiona
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Interesting reading. Watching the Meegat scenes over, I didn't see *any*
of
the overt embarrasment or sense of humility and responsibility that a
lot
of
people have said they did. He's a bit disconcerted when she actually
drops
at his feet (but so are Gan and Vila) but he recovers quickly, and for
the
most part seems to display irritiation, wariness and suspicion (and as a result keeps his gun drawn for the most part... oh, wait, here come the phallic-symbol brigade... DUCK!!!).
Another good point. Several CJ types have cited Avon's response to Meegat as a central attraction of the episode, but it really is a very small part of the whole. Still, CJs do seem to have a talent for getting a lot of mileage out of precious little:)
See what Neil said earlier about such reversals presupposing the
original
power relation.
I don't think I was the one who said that either (may have been Una?).
Neil
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