Helen wrote:
Jacqui wrote:
How come Vila's 'friend' in 'Moloch' didn't have a limiter when he
was far
more dangerous than Gan?
Because Gan was far more dangerous than Vila's friend in 'Moloch'. That's the simple answer :-).
Jenny
Ack! I shall defend my Oak Leaves (actually, was never awarded any despite thinking Gan's a slendid chap and arguing that Avon teaching him about computers shows that snarky comments aside, the Snarly One thought Gan showed potential as a student)
There was a scene in an early episode where Avon shows him a thing or two about computers, but there are also quite a number of times where Avon clearly demonstrates his contempt for Gan's intelligence. For example: When they are looking for Orac in Shadow,Gan tells the crew that he even called out Orac's name. Avon replies, "That requires a degree of stupidity that no amount of training could match."
by amending that:
Gan was far more dangerous TO THE FEDERATION. What do they care if the guy in Moloch rapes and harms the few women that are to be found on a prison planet?
First off, the women Doran meets are on the planet Sardos not a prison planet. Secondly Gan was sent to a prison planet. Thirdly, when left in the control room to guard two unarmed Federation soldiers, Doran shoots them both. Saying later that his finger slipped! Doran is an extremely violent individual.
They are only there because they are criminals. He has a
mad on at half the species, but he's also basically a coward and won't be attacking women with rank and status.
I haven't got this episode on video and I haven't see it in years, so please excuse me if I'm getting this wrong, but I don't remember Doran being intimidated by women with rank and status, he even tries to encourage Vila to rape Servalan.
Gan, on the other hand,
specifically killed a Federation trooper with his bare hands.
He tells us he did, there is no confirmation of this. And it is never stated that he used his bare hands, just that he killed a guard that killed his woman. And the fact that he doesn't give her name, or even say "my wife" or "my lover", but "my woman". Creepy. It like Jenna going missing and someone aboard the Liberator saying, "where's that woman gone?"
They assume his anger will apply to anyone in the same uniform, or
worse,with the same allegience. He is therefore a danger to the Federation and must be quelled.
IMO that doesn't hold much water, because the reason Gan gives is that it was a vengence killing, not a political one. Also if Gan's such a "splended chap" why would the athorities consider him a threat to "anyone in the same uniform" that sounds more like a psycopath than a rational being.
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Jenny wrote:
And the fact that he doesn't give her name, or even say "my wife" or "my lover", but "my woman". Creepy.
Not necessarily - I quite like those languages where "my man" and "my husband" are expressed by the same words. But in this case, I assume that they weren't married, and then you get into the tired old what-do-you-call-them thing. I remember round about the time of B7 someone listing possible options in a letter to a newspaper, and rejecting "my lover" as unnecessarily dramatic - and Gan is rather understated. "My partner" might leave the audience wondering whether the trooper was sabotaging their small business. "My girlfriend" would just about do, but might imply the relationship was a little more casual than I imagine it to be. "My significant other" would sound absurdly comic. "My common-law wife" would be a bit technical. To my sentimental ears, "my woman" conveys "a woman who was mine - as in, she was everything to me, but I don't need to explain that to you, it's too private, and you see my meaning". In my personal meandering off-canon, the woman was pregnant when she died.
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