The new members - there might not be many in the Southern Hemisphere, and/or free on Saturdays, but I agree. With a few notable exceptions (hi, Anne!) they're generally a bit quiet.

This machine is presumaby like the JCB with the claw that has been tearing apart the football stadium behind my house - but that didn't have a big scary face painted on it.

It is Blake's name she cries when she is dying, for example.

Good point.

I mean - WHY?? it looks so stupid!

Gibbering idiot? That's Tarrant!

I enjoy the rewatches! I keep meaning to take part in the monthly fic-writing challenges, but I never seem to find the time. Sad.

Maybe if you weren't having to use all your energy to survive, writing would be easier!

Don't think we come across Zen and Orac communicating by direct sensory link in later episodes. Might have changed a few episodes if the writers had remembered the possibility.

How's your cat? My new kitten is asleep on me, having killed her toy mouse, climbed the curtains and frightened the dog.

Tortie and white. She's 9 weeks approx. Any name suggestions?

Why is Cally making noises when she could also communicate by direct sensory link??

Vila really is an idiot.

If he's supposed to represent the everyman, count me out!

But you'll miss the kairopan spider! Hope the summer school goes well. In the olden days I once did an OU summer school there (as a student).

I hadn't noticed before how it's at the beginning of series 3 that we have several really dumb Vila episodes. I wonder if it's his version of Cally's lonelines, his reaction to losing Blake and the uncertain atmosphere aboard the Liberator?

I think I can live without that spider . . .

What do you make of that episode? I would like to think that Servalan is playing games with Jarvik (or whatever his name is), and does not take him seriously.

Poor scripts, I'd say. No real imagination about his role, and not much homework done about what was established in the previous 2 series. They try to make up for it in City, though, I suppose.

Tricky one. The way Jacs plays it, it could be either. But I think she'd like a change from all the wet menfolk she's come across since Keller. Hence Avon, but that's another story.

That makes sense - plus I would suspect that he actually is quite good in bed, and she enjoys that. And he proves unexpectedly successful, which of course is something she will use as long as she can. But I like to think that she would have killed him without a second thought when his usefulness was done.

Keller is fascinating, because he does seem to be so ordinary - a competent officer, but not more than that. And not even that good looking. And yet he is The One . . .