Dana Shilling wrote:
I'm actually sort of surprised that Blake wasn't more worried about being sold out by Vila. I'm sure Vila was grateful for being rescued from Cygnus Alpha, but I wonder if the thought of exchanging Blake and the Liberator for a pardon (after all, he isn't a particularly important villain, just a chronic one) didn't cross his mind more than a few times.
Vila's a soft-hearted villain though. When the possibility of Avon hacking the ship's log is mentioned, he calls it 'immoral', an interesting word from a thief. He objects to the idea of killing the putative assassin Cancer too, saying something like "I'm a thief, not a murderer." He does have a conscience.
Nico
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At 12:08 05/02/2002 +1300, you wrote:
Dana Shilling wrote:
I'm actually sort of surprised that Blake wasn't more worried about being sold out by Vila.
Vila's a soft-hearted villain though. When the possibility of Avon
hacking
the ship's log is mentioned, he calls it 'immoral', an interesting
word from
a thief.
However, the line continues: "The cold-hearted murdering -- let's kill him now before he can do it."
I think his objection is probably grounded more in the fact that he's one of the ones who'll be shoved out of the airlock.
He objects to the idea of killing the putative assassin Cancer too, saying something like "I'm a thief, not a murderer." He does have a conscience.
He's right with the others in urging Blake to kill the disarmed Travis in Duel, though. And he helps Avon with the set up in RoD.
Nico
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Anna wrote...
However, the line continues: "The cold-hearted murdering -- let's kill him now before he can do it."
I'm not sure he really means that. it doesn't seem like Vila's style somehow. Mind you he does seem a fair bit harder in the early episodes.
He's right with the others in urging Blake to kill the disarmed Travis in Duel, though. And he helps Avon with the set up in RoD.
That's sort of at a remove though. He happily shoots down pursuit ships too with getting squeamish, but face to face he has trouble with violence.
Leia
Nico said:
Vila's a soft-hearted villain though. When the possibility of Avon hacking the ship's log is mentioned, he calls it 'immoral', an interesting word
from
a thief.
Of course Blake has come up with the same idea independently, but Vila doesn't hold it against him (maybe because he thinks Blake doesn't have the technical skills to do it even if he were willing to?)
I do think it was lucky for Vila that he never got trapped in a shuttle with Blake and an Ultimate Weapon that could assure ultimate victory for The Cause. ("Come here, Vila, The Revolution needs your help.")
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