Brains But No Heart

lileclaire:

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I think the thing that puts me off the “avon is batshit” thing so much is that they did it in a way where sometimes I could barely recognize him as the same character anymore. He read more like…

See I think he IS highly logical a lot of the time and that comes naturally to him. I do think that he’s not the most emotive person in the world and probably means a lot of the cold callous shit that he says. But I also believe he’s more than aware of his own basic human nature and rebels against it like you said. He doesn’t want to be irrational like everybody else. It gets you into sticky situations. Sometimes it gets you killed. My main issue with series 4 in particular is the fact that Avon took up Blake’s crusade. No. Just-no. Avon was never interested in sticking it to the feds. He sure as shit didn’t like ‘em but he had no more than a passing interest in fighting them when it suited his own interests. His primary interest was the Liberator and of course Blake. Blake and his unswerving belief that what they were doing would make a difference. He may not have agreed, he may not have believed it himself but something in him, some small patch of sentiment maybe, wants to believe that too.

But he can’t reconcile that sentiment to himself logically. So he hides it behind his favourite claim of “I just want the Liberator.” Without Blake there to give him that excuse to fight then he would have just flown off into the sunset, hording riches and living the good life. You could argue that he was looking for Blake in series 4 but we only get any sort of indication that’s the case in Terminal and then it’s dropped until the final episode in favour of Avon establishing alliances and trying to rally the troops (wtf?!). In between 3&4 Avon becomes Blake II and it bugs me. He even starts taking on some of his less appealing personality traits. (shouting the rest of the crew down, not telling them what he’s planning, taking note of their opinions and then just doing whatever the fuck he wants anyway and damn their opinion & etc.) I think if this was meant to indicate he’d gone nuts by this point then there was a better way of going about it.

I think you put it best when you said certain parts of series 3&4 came across as being more like fanfic than an actual B7 script. Not that there isn’t a lot of worth in there but on the whole it faltered. I had a point there somewhere I’m sure but I found a bottle of whiskey earlier and I have an episode of Lexx playing in the background and I’m not even sure what my name is anymore so this is probably incoherent drabble that I will probably disagree with tomorrow.

(ohwait! I think my point that I entirely failed to make, was that Blake was the lead for a reason. He had solid motivation. Avon worked better as an auxiliary imho.)