Another board game this week, the pointy triangle one.
I am not fun of post war Servalan. She has lost the appearance of innocence which used to be so menacing; and this week her full on made up face constructs anther plot to capture the pesky liberator crew in a Will. E. Coyote style.
Pilot Four Zeros facial burns look really painful! What an icky vomity death!
I struggle with this plot. It's kinda Clone Masters recycled and revamped, but this time, we don't clone the rebels. Also Servalan's lackeys falling into trouble when taking over the Liberator. Haven't we seen all this before? I miss Travis. He was at least smart enough to make it a fight.
I'm also unclear why Servalan wants a small army of children. She hasn't chosen a family friendly career, I think. The moment of her children's death is nicely done however. As I recall she cries in Sand, too. The more inhuman, the more human?
Avon and Cally have a real pop at each other. Sarcophagus is coming up, mind!!
And Anna. “She was important to me.” I think that's the phrase Blake used about Inga. Does no one just love anyone any more? Or is love too easy a way for the federation to hurt you, so you never say it?
I wonder where they get all the games from. The Altas didn't really seem the kind to have much use for them...
also unclear why Servalan wants a small army of children ...spare body parts? Perhaps she hadn't counted on actually feeling anything for them.
Yes, Servalan needs someone to balance her. Or unbalance, possibly. Or perhaps simply someone who is too useful to her to kill off. she can have ORAC
Or is love too easy a way for the federation to hurt you, so you never say it? Plausible... Though at least Kerril used the word, and I seem to remember Vila (traitorously?) using it about Avon's feelings for Anna. Can't remember if there are any more instances. Blake I think was being deliberately ambiguous (what with the young cousin thing.)
I find Deral's instant assumption that the reason Servalan wants clones is a sudden maternal outburst very odd. A far more logical assumption would have been some scheme. There's zero explanation, lead up or follow up either. Neither does she question Gingko's claim that Deral was also overcome by this inexplicable ut to nowhere urge to breed -
The Lib crew are no betteer - they trot off to the planet unprotected and Vila and Dayna apparently forget entirely that Sevalan hasn'tgot the only cure when she trys to hold that over their heads.
Servalan's feeling the clones death, nice and dramatic as it is makes no logical sense - if the idea is the clones are telepathic we're given no clue beforehand!
Yes, the plot is almost impressively incoherent! How does anyone even manage to write a story that revolves around the transmission of a super-deadly infectious disease - and then not have the main characters respond to that? Or, yes, suddenly forget that they do have the cure, even though just cured person is standing right next to them? &etc. And having managed to write it... Did nobody read the script it before shooting it?
I am not fun of post war Servalan. She has lost the appearance of innocence which used to be so menacing; and this week her full on made up face constructs anther plot to capture the pesky liberator crew in a Will. E. Coyote style.
Pilot Four Zeros facial burns look really painful! What an icky vomity death!
I struggle with this plot. It's kinda Clone Masters recycled and revamped, but this time, we don't clone the rebels. Also Servalan's lackeys falling into trouble when taking over the Liberator. Haven't we seen all this before? I miss Travis. He was at least smart enough to make it a fight.
I'm also unclear why Servalan wants a small army of children. She hasn't chosen a family friendly career, I think. The moment of her children's death is nicely done however. As I recall she cries in Sand, too. The more inhuman, the more human?
Avon and Cally have a real pop at each other. Sarcophagus is coming up, mind!!
And Anna. “She was important to me.” I think that's the phrase Blake used about Inga. Does no one just love anyone any more? Or is love too easy a way for the federation to hurt you, so you never say it?
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also unclear why Servalan wants a small army of children
...spare body parts? Perhaps she hadn't counted on actually feeling anything for them.
Yes, Servalan needs someone to balance her. Or unbalance, possibly. Or perhaps simply someone who is too useful to her to kill off. she can have ORAC
Or is love too easy a way for the federation to hurt you, so you never say it?
Plausible... Though at least Kerril used the word, and I seem to remember Vila (traitorously?) using it about Avon's feelings for Anna. Can't remember if there are any more instances. Blake I think was being deliberately ambiguous (what with the young cousin thing.)
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I find Deral's instant assumption that the reason Servalan wants clones is a sudden maternal outburst very odd. A far more logical assumption would have been some scheme. There's zero explanation, lead up or follow up either. Neither does she question Gingko's claim that Deral was also overcome by this inexplicable ut to nowhere urge to breed -
The Lib crew are no betteer - they trot off to the planet unprotected and Vila and Dayna apparently forget entirely that Sevalan hasn'tgot the only cure when she trys to hold that over their heads.
Servalan's feeling the clones death, nice and dramatic as it is makes no logical sense - if the idea is the clones are telepathic we're given no clue beforehand!
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