M wrote:
... in Sarcophagus when Avon says you can take my life, I think he's VERY serious. I think after Anna's death he is vaguely suicidal/ depressed
Be pretty strange if he were not unhappy (though not necessarily depressed, depression is almost defined as unhappiness that *isn't* caused by anything, or is out of proportion to the stimulus). Thoughts of suicide certainly might be expected to make one brave with respect to threats to one's life.
I thought the 'gospel' explanation for Avon's words to the Cally alien was simply that the alien had absorbed part of Cally's consciousness/character, and Avon was therefore trying to push it towards an action that Cally would resist because of feelings (of whatever nature) for Avon. That is, that Avon was bluffing.
Tavia