Clearly at this point the writers regret calling the ship "Scorpio" Yes, I wondered about that too - maybe the script was originally written for S3, when they still had the Liberator, and then had to be adapted. It would make a lot more sense if the assassin had been called Scorpio! (Crabs are not really *that* intimidating creatures...)
Why is Servalan spending so much effort tracking them down? Someone, I think it was during the last rewatch, made the interesting suggestion that Servalan's motives for pursuing them in S4 may be essentially personal: after her loss of power and her need to remain incognito, the old Liberator crew may very well be the only people left to who know who she is and treat her like her old self. Or at least the only ones that she can still allow herself to interact with. She may have a subconscious craving for that little bit of recognition, causing her to keep searching them out.
I rather like that interpretation. It would add a bit of depth to her otherwise sadly caricature figure in S4.
I've got the impression that this ep is relatively well-received in the fandom, but personally I loathe it. Perhaps unreasonably so, but nonetheless. It feels like one long sequence of badly executed fan-fiction tropes.
"You have a time, and you have a place." No you don't. You have the name of a planet. Planets are LARGE. (this is by no means a problem that is limited to this particular ep, or even this particular show, but it is one that annoys me
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that fake Cancer looked like Noel Edmonds! This episode doesn't hold up for a second under scrutiny, but I'm afraid that I quite enjoyed the OTT elements like the slave auction - it allows for some nice Avon/Servalan banter, even though the whole scheme is completely ridiculous. And it's a very good Soolin episode, although I agree that she would be very unlikely to make herself so comfortable in order to think.
On the minus side, it's the start of Tarrant becoming tediously susceptible, and falling for a different female every week.
I want to like the twist of the assassin being the seemingly helpless girl but she's so over the top it's hard.
A few nice bits with Vila and Avon on the planet. It's clear for a while again that Avon knows perfectly well he's just winding Vila up and it's relatively good-natured.
Avon being a terrible actor I can live wih, but so is Cancer when her whole plan depends on it, and the character who's actually meant to be an actor appears to be trying out for panto villain.
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Yes, I wondered about that too - maybe the script was originally written for S3, when they still had the Liberator, and then had to be adapted. It would make a lot more sense if the assassin had been called Scorpio! (Crabs are not really *that* intimidating creatures...)
Why is Servalan spending so much effort tracking them down?
Someone, I think it was during the last rewatch, made the interesting suggestion that Servalan's motives for pursuing them in S4 may be essentially personal: after her loss of power and her need to remain incognito, the old Liberator crew may very well be the only people left to who know who she is and treat her like her old self. Or at least the only ones that she can still allow herself to interact with. She may have a subconscious craving for that little bit of recognition, causing her to keep searching them out.
I rather like that interpretation. It would add a bit of depth to her otherwise sadly caricature figure in S4.
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"You have a time, and you have a place." No you don't. You have the name of a planet. Planets are LARGE. (this is by no means a problem that is limited to this particular ep, or even this particular show, but it is one that annoys me ( ... )
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On the minus side, it's the start of Tarrant becoming tediously susceptible, and falling for a different female every week.
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A few nice bits with Vila and Avon on the planet. It's clear for a while again that Avon knows perfectly well he's just winding Vila up and it's relatively good-natured.
Avon being a terrible actor I can live wih, but so is Cancer when her whole plan depends on it, and the character who's actually meant to be an actor appears to be trying out for panto villain.
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