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Ron
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 Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:45 pm Post subject: When does Avon lose it? |
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Is it in? :
Space Fall (joke!)
Rumours of Death – meeting Anna again
Terminal – turning against them, and that final smile
Traitor – wanting to kill Servalan himself
Stardrive – hitching a lift from an asteroid and not saving the Doctor
Orbit – trying to jettison Vila
Blake - or not until he smiles at the end
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Mary Lou Jensen
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| I think Avon did lose it, it was interesting to watch the process in fact. I think he started to lose it the moment he started to care about people other than himself, it was a very very very slow process, it just excellerated towards the end. |
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Futsie
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Heh, yes, that made me think of one of his lines in "Space Fall"... There he is, on a prison ship to Cygnus Alpha, everything gone wrong, and what exactly went wrong, Avon? - "I relied on other people  "
I guess that's an important theme of the final episode tho - both Blake and Avon HAVE to rely on other people to some extent, but who can be relied on?
A theme of other episodes too - Dr Plaxton didn't exactly make good choices of allies, I think  
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MagnusGreel
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I don't think it was meeting Anna, I think it was shooting Anna.
I used to have that last moment with Avon from "Gold" as an avatar, for awhile! |
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the masters of cheese
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:00 am Post subject: |
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| i think killing anna did it....his hold on reality slips then |
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MagnusGreel
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 4:52 am Post subject: |
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| i think killing anna did it....his hold on reality slips then |
He lost his hold on reality? That's going a bit far. He wasn't delusional. He could think, plan, and hold conversations like a sane person. He did, though, have some intolerable feelings going on that affected his decisions eventually. |
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meegat39
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| MagnusGreel wrote: |
| the masters of cheese wrote: |
| i think killing anna did it....his hold on reality slips then |
He lost his hold on reality? That's going a bit far. He wasn't delusional. He could think, plan, and hold conversations like a sane person. He did, though, have some intolerable feelings going on that affected his decisions eventually. |
I never believed that Avon lost it, either.  |
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MagnusGreel
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 4:33 am Post subject: |
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| meegat39 wrote: |
| MagnusGreel wrote: |
| the masters of cheese wrote: |
| i think killing anna did it....his hold on reality slips then |
He lost his hold on reality? That's going a bit far. He wasn't delusional. He could think, plan, and hold conversations like a sane person. He did, though, have some intolerable feelings going on that affected his decisions eventually. |
I never believed that Avon lost it, either. |
What most people these days seem not to understand is that there's an enormous, murky, grey area between being mentally "healthy" (whatever that really means, if anything), and being out-and-out disturbed. For the most part, most of us exist somewhere in that grey area. Did Avon "lose it", in the way people use that expression these days? Yes. Did he lose his mind? No.
He stays a generally rational man, whose rationality is increasingly under pressure from one or more life traumas or irreconcilable conflicts. Part of his response is to isolate himself, cutting off any possible escape routes. I don't know if the others on Liberator/Scorpio could have been of help, but his personal dignity wouldn't have allowed him to try to include them or confide in them. Maybe for good reason.
So the pressure gets to him more and more. No, he's not crazy. But he is trapped in a bad mental place. I don't know quite what that mental place is, but it might be a fairly rational and well-reasoned place. I mean, one can be traumatized and be damaged, and made cynical, without its being because of a skewed psychological attitude. His growing cynicism might be justified. After all, the B7 universe is a pretty crappy one to try to live in. His day-to-day practical judgment is definitely suffering, though. |
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meegat39
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 9:56 am Post subject: |
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| MagnusGreel wrote: |
| meegat39 wrote: |
| MagnusGreel wrote: |
| the masters of cheese wrote: |
| i think killing anna did it....his hold on reality slips then |
He lost his hold on reality? That's going a bit far. He wasn't delusional. He could think, plan, and hold conversations like a sane person. He did, though, have some intolerable feelings going on that affected his decisions eventually. |
I never believed that Avon lost it, either. |
What most people these days seem not to understand is that there's an enormous, murky, grey area between being mentally "healthy" (whatever that really means, if anything), and being out-and-out disturbed. For the most part, most of us exist somewhere in that grey area. Did Avon "lose it", in the way people use that expression these days? Yes. Did he lose his mind? No.
He stays a generally rational man, whose rationality is increasingly under pressure from one or more life traumas or irreconcilable conflicts. Part of his response is to isolate himself, cutting off any possible escape routes. I don't know if the others on Liberator/Scorpio could have been of help, but his personal dignity wouldn't have allowed him to try to include them or confide in them. Maybe for good reason.
So the pressure gets to him more and more. No, he's not crazy. But he is trapped in a bad mental place. I don't know quite what that mental place is, but it might be a fairly rational and well-reasoned place. I mean, one can be traumatized and be damaged, and made cynical, without its being because of a skewed psychological attitude. His growing cynicism might be justified. After all, the B7 universe is a pretty crappy one to try to live in. His day-to-day practical judgment is definitely suffering, though. |
I agree that Avon was under increasing pressure and I believe this affected his decisions and mental state. But the expression "lost it" implies that he flipped or lost his hold on reality. So maybe the name of the poll is wrong or could be better worded. |
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