Sally and Dana:
Countdown - Ralli, a librarian/revolutionary.
Oooh--can we fix her up with Giles?
There's a rather good story in Tales from Space City 2 about Ralli.
Tavia
Saturday evening and not a message?
Jacqui
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Jacqui's question as to our whereabouts -
Saturday evening and not a message?
- enables me to tell my spooky story from the weekend.
This weekend, I was at a hen party. We hired a Jacobean manor house in rural Herefordshire, and had a murder mystery dinner. It was fantastic. I am one of the two bridesmaids, and we have been organizing this event for a couple of months, choosing the house because of its proximity to Hay-on-Wye, and booking it last month. The other bridesmaid and I have been running around like maniacs making sure people had lifts, and getting the directions out, that sort of thing.
It took about six hours to get over there on Friday, with a car full of enough food for 12 people, and making detours to collect people. When we arrived, we wandered round, amazed at how wonderful the house was, nicked the nicest bedrooms <g>, unpacked the food, etc. etc.
I then checked all the kitchen drawers and cupboards, to make sure we had all the equipment for the dinner we were cooking on the Saturday night. Everything was OK, and the kitchen was so huge that there were loads of empty drawers.
One drawer was empty except for a single video cassette, the only tape I'd seen in the house. 'Ooh,' I thought, turning to read the label. 'I wonder what's on this.'
The tape was - of course - labelled 'Blake's 7'. I couldn't fucking believe it. Of course, I instantly had to drop everything to find out what episode it was.
What a fucking weird thing to happen. I am clearly being stalked. Or maybe I spontaneously generate B7 wherever I go.
Una
Una McCormack wrote:
The tape was - of course - labelled 'Blake's 7'. I couldn't fucking
believe it.
Of course, I instantly had to drop everything to find out what episode it
was.
Okay, so don't leave us in suspense....
Susan Beth (susanbeth33@mindspring.com)
Susan Beth wrote:
Una McCormack wrote:
The tape was - of course - labelled 'Blake's 7'. I couldn't fucking believe
it.
Of course, I instantly had to drop everything to find out what episode it
was.
Okay, so don't leave us in suspense....
Oops, sorry, yes - it was 'Blake', of all things.
Una
Una McCormack wrote:
Oops, sorry, yes - it was 'Blake', of all things.
Oooh. Gathering of 'friends' in a strange location, thoughts of murder and betrayal -- was it an omen? Did all survive the party?
Susan Beth (susanbeth33@mindspring.com)
Susan Beth wrote:
Una McCormack wrote:
Oops, sorry, yes - it was 'Blake', of all things.
Oooh. Gathering of 'friends' in a strange location, thoughts of murder and betrayal -- was it an omen? Did all survive the party?
<lol> Well, I did, but I gunned down the bride first.
Una
Una McCormack wrote:
This weekend, I was at a hen party.
"Hen party"??
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OK - the other one - the MP (Labour, Harrow West (North London)) has been re-elected.
Jacqui
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Does Travis actually see himself as disabled?
Jacqui
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jacquispeel@netscape.net wrote:
Does Travis actually see himself as disabled?
Jacqui
I think Travis sees himself as a soldier. In his bionic rebuild (SLD), he refers to his feeling of kinship with mutoids. He'd always give a mutoid priority over a man, he says. This almost suggests he sees mutoids as an improvement over being human. And why shouldn't he? Their superior abilities make them superior soldiers.
He's turned his missing hand into a weapon. Is he trying to *become* the weapon he's trained to be? (They might have done something with his eye then, made it useful for something, a laser tracking device maybe. I can see a handy red-eyed "Terminator" style modification.)
Travis probably doesn't think of himself as . . . less than before Blake reconfigured him. Which rather undermines his whole vendetta against Blake. Why should Travis take it personally that Blake maimed him? What did it do to him, to experience that assualt?
To return to your question, I can just imagine the uses to which the Federation puts its disabled population. If there was the slightest question in Travis's mind that he was disabled, he would have parked *himself* on the rubbish heap. Not only didn't he do that, he made himself into a better soldier than before. Guess someone gave him the old "make lemons into lemonade" speech. Before he shot him.
How does his hand weapon work, anyway?
Jackie
In response to Jacqui Speel and Jackie Taylor's comments about Travis' "disability":
if the Federation law resembled the United States Americans with Disabilities Act (yeah, ok, some chance, but stay with me on this), then Travis would be disabled if his physical condition interfered with "major life activities."
He seems to be OK with activities such as mobility and working. The ADA would apply to a "qualified person with a disability"--"qualified" meaning "able to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation."
And Travis does seem able to, e.g., shoot at rebels (albeit not hitting any very often--but this probably has more to do with the notoriously poor marksmanship of Bad Guys than his disability), command a pursuit ship, boss around mutoids, and in general do whatever he did before getting shot. I think his inability to finally get Blake is more plot-related than disability-related.
-(Y)
--- Jackie wrote:
I think Travis sees himself as a soldier. In his bionic rebuild (SLD), he refers to his feeling of kinship with mutoids. He'd always give a mutoid priority over a man, he says. This almost suggests he sees mutoids as an improvement over being human. And why shouldn't he? Their superior abilities make them superior soldiers.
They're also disposable. One of the interesting things about Travis is that he has some fugitive stirrings of conscience on occasion. For example his rescue in Gambit and Par's statement that he didn't get his men killed gratuitously. I wonder whether this furtive instinct doesn't make him choose Mutoids. Of course, not being naive like Jarvik, he'd much rather not admit this to Servalan. On this reading, Project Avalon shows his increasing desperation to capture Blake as he sets up unmodified troopers as cannon fodder. By Deliverance he has signed the Faustian bargain and abandoned a debt of honour to the man who saved his life to get at Blake. I think I'm probably retconning Season 2 back into Season 1 to do this btw.
He's turned his missing hand into a weapon. Is he trying to *become* the weapon he's trained to be? (They might have done something with his eye then, made it useful for something, a laser tracking device maybe. I can see a handy red-eyed "Terminator" style modification.)
I think that Travis is a kind of humanoid dalek. He has allowed himself to be dehumanised and turned into a killing machine. It's a fairly old (and incredibly unfair) dramatic convention to show evil people as somehow physically flawed, in order to counterpoint their mental and moral flaws.
Travis probably doesn't think of himself as . . . less than before Blake reconfigured him. Which rather undermines his whole vendetta against Blake.
No good deed goes unpunished <g>
Why should Travis take it personally that Blake maimed him? What did it do to him, to experience that assualt?
I think that it's a professionalism thing. None of us like to fail. What was supposed to be a routine massacre turned into a debacle. (Was Travis supposed to capture Blake or eliminate him ? Perhaps the business with the show trial was an emergency response by the authorities). Besides, if Travis really wanted his arm and eye modified he would probably have a professional surgeon doing the job, not an amateur with the first weapon that came to hand. In Travis' eyes Blake beat him. In SLD he has the chance to return the favour. By Star One he's prepared to take the entire human race down to achieve that end. What's happened in between is that Blake has beaten him again and again and in his attempts to redress the balance he has sacrificed every last shred of human loyalty. What really annoys Travis I imagine is that unlike him Blake doesn't take it personally. "You don't matter enough to kill"
Stephen.
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--- Jackie wrote:
I think Travis sees himself as a soldier. In his bionic rebuild (SLD), he refers to his feeling of kinship with mutoids. He'd always give a mutoid priority over a man, he says. This almost suggests he sees mutoids as an improvement over being human. And why shouldn't he? Their superior abilities make them superior soldiers.
They're also disposable. One of the interesting things about Travis is that he has some fugitive stirrings of conscience on occasion. For example his rescue in Gambit and Par's statement that he didn't get his men killed gratuitously. I wonder whether this furtive instinct doesn't make him choose Mutoids. Of course, not being naive like Jarvik, he'd much rather not admit this to Servalan. On this reading, Project Avalon shows his increasing desperation to capture Blake as he sets up unmodified troopers as cannon fodder. By Deliverance he has signed the Faustian bargain and abandoned a debt of honour to the man who saved his life to get at Blake. I think I'm probably retconning Season 2 back into Season 1 to do this btw.
He's turned his missing hand into a weapon. Is he trying to *become* the weapon he's trained to be? (They might have done something with his eye then, made it useful for something, a laser tracking device maybe. I can see a handy red-eyed "Terminator" style modification.)
I think that Travis is a kind of humanoid dalek. He has allowed himself to be dehumanised and turned into a killing machine. It's a fairly old (and incredibly unfair) dramatic convention to show evil people as somehow physically flawed, in order to counterpoint their mental and moral flaws.
Travis probably doesn't think of himself as . . . less than before Blake reconfigured him. Which rather undermines his whole vendetta against Blake.
No good deed goes unpunished <g>
Why should Travis take it personally that Blake maimed him? What did it do to him, to experience that assualt?
I think that it's a professionalism thing. None of us like to fail. What was supposed to be a routine massacre turned into a debacle. (Was Travis supposed to capture Blake or eliminate him ? Perhaps the business with the show trial was an emergency response by the authorities). Besides, if Travis really wanted his arm and eye modified he would probably have a professional surgeon doing the job, not an amateur with the first weapon that came to hand. In Travis' eyes Blake beat him. In SLD he has the chance to return the favour. By Star One he's prepared to take the entire human race down to achieve that end. What's happened in between is that Blake has beaten him again and again and in his attempts to redress the balance he has sacrificed every last shred of human loyalty. What really annoys Travis I imagine is that unlike him Blake doesn't take it personally. "You don't matter enough to kill"
Stephen.
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