Just because I wasn't keen on the aliens doesn't mean I didn't like Duel. Great moments from it include: the ramming manuever, and the arguing on board ship Travis trying to have a conversation with the Mutoid... and his apparent interest in her past. It's interpretaable so maany ways. I always thought he knew her before she'd been altered. Avon's decision not to stay up and watch them sit in trees all night Blake's decision not to kill Travis under the cicumstances.
On Wed 13 Jun, Helen Krummenacker wrote:
Just because I wasn't keen on the aliens doesn't mean I didn't like Duel. Great moments from it include: the ramming manuever, and the arguing on board ship Travis trying to have a conversation with the Mutoid... and his apparent interest in her past. It's interpretaable so maany ways. I always thought he knew her before she'd been altered.
Or he was obsessed by her in some way (possibly a sexual interest) and had broken past the security to discover her background.
Or maybe he had a degree of fellow-feeling with mutoids because of his arm and researched all their backgrounds because he felt they were still people as he was still human.
It sheds interesting lights on Travis whichever interpretation you take.
Judith
At 06:29 PM 6/13/01 +0100, Judith Proctor wrote:
Or he was obsessed by her in some way (possibly a sexual interest)
I knew you'd come round eventually, Judith (;-p).
--Penny -- "You mix your laundry list with your grocery list and you'll end up eating your underwear for breakfast."
Helen Krummenacker wrote:
Just because I wasn't keen on the aliens doesn't mean I didn't like Duel.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you, specifically, hated "Duel" or anything. It's just that I've often seen the episode criticized quite strongly, and I'm rather at a loss to understand it...
Great moments from it include:
[snip list of great moments]
I'd also include:
* Blake laughing at Travis and saying "why don't you try stamping your foot?" * The Avon moment I mentioned earlier, as he's watching Blake not kill Travis. Also the "proving you care" line. And the image of Blake and Travis sitting in trees throwing nuts at each other. * The nice bits of Blake-Jenna bonding (also in the tree). * "I've seen friends die." (Lovely delivery by GT on that line, IMO.)
I also like the planet (the dead-civilization part, as opposed to the woodsy part, assuming that was even still the same planet). I, personally, found it very appropriately spooky. And, yes, Giroc is probably somewhere on the list of my favorite guest characters. It's that cheerfully malicious laugh, I think.
I do think it's got the best space battle in the series, too.
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