M. wrote:

Just watched Warlord again, does anyone else think Tarrant acts more like a

teenager with Avon the guardian/ adult figure, at the end. <snip> It's just he's supposed to be a hardened space 'privateer', rebel, going around the galaxy. He's supposed to have a hardened an edge, understand the realities. Yet he seems a little niave and it's not just this episode. Maybe some-one can help me out with the episodes, but apart from Avon becoming boss-man, he also seeems to become the paternal figure with Vila the friendly uncle!!??<

I've mentioned before, I think, how to my mind the S3 crew resemble a family, with Avon as the reluctant father, Cally as the tired, disillusioned mother, Vila as the tolerated uncle and Tarrant an Dayna as the highspirited, reckless children. (Although both Tarrant and Dayna are supposed to be older, to me their behaviour often seems like that of teeangers.)

Your observation has made me aware how this comparison can be extended to S4, with the mother gone and the father having brought in a new, much younger wife. Initially the children and new wife tread warily around each other (Soolin doesn't get much to do in the first few S4 episodes). Gradually they develop a workable relationship but the new wife always remains a bit of an outsider.

Marian