Someone wrote in [personal profile] kalinda001 2008-04-30 01:03 am (UTC)

Thank you - that episode is an irritant, and I'm glad you are criticizing the holes, what some teacher called, "begging the question" (where is Scorpio with the stardrive, why not just aim the shuttle at Servalan as a missile and teleport out, why didn't Avon say "What else?" or "Triangulate for weight," why didn't plastic brain opt for the quickest, heaviest solution for his own survival, was Avon/the scriptwriter never a child - you don't announce your presence in hide and seek by talking, why wasn't Avon tearing through all the cabinets - moving in slow motion like maybe people after accidents, etc.) Some fan had a nice essay about Avon moving in two dimensions, looking at walking/head level, whereas Vila, a thief, hid in a third dimension/above, kind of like the Star Trek Enterprise descending then rising up behind the enemy ship like a submarine.

Youtube is obnoxiously slow for finding out where you split from the episode. But I am too busy reading you and others' b7 fiction to find out -
are the b7 dvds out in the American format now or never?

Malodaar really happened - on a mountain glacier (Mount Malodaar?): TOUCHING THE VOID, by Joe Simpson: "Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death. The next three days were an impossibly grueling ordeal for both men. Yates, certain that Simpson was dead, returned to base camp consumed with grief and guilt over abandoning him. Miraculously, Simpson had survived the fall but, crippled, starving, and severely frostbitten, was trapped in a deep crevasse. Summoning vast reserves of physical and spiritual strength, Simpson hopped, hobbled, and crawled over the cliffs and canyons of the Andes, reaching the base hours before Yates had planned to break camp. How both men overcame the torments of those harrowing days is an epic tale of fear, suffering, and survival; a poignant testament to unshakable courage and friendship." Simpson/Vila scooted down the mountain backwards on his seat, well, not exactly: he placed his hands behind him, swung his seat forward back, sat, then did it again. The two worked on the book, but I don't know what happened to their friendship.

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