Servalan's in it - what's not to like?

I feel that a lot of these worlds are populated by people who like to cosplay whatever fragments of Earth history they think they remember.

I don't know. I've just come across mentions of it as self-evidently a bad episode, like Animals or Voice from the Past.

Maybe people don't like it because the actors 'ham it up' a bit? They're entitled to have a laugh sometimies, surely?

Nah. It's very tightly plotted and played. Everyone is now on edge. Denouement is evident in it's every pore. Maybe people are put off by the dress-ups.

Never assume anything, Avon.

Yes, I think it's the dress-ups they don't like.

Servalan reclining in a white fur coat, eating grapes - how typical.

Is Travis already working with the Andromedans at this point?

Travis must have been a bt disappoiinted to know there was a royal brother as well.

From her point of view, why not? Real grapes are probably something of a luxury in space. That cultured algae fruit just isn't the same.

Yes. He tries talking Servalan into coming on side with his "ambition", appealing to hers, but, apart from getting her ship, he shoots through when he gets no more. I think it's probably an either/or thing.

These royal personages just keep on multiplying.

These royal personages just keep on multiplying.

Especially when we see that, like the north of England, there is no rain on some planets and too much on others and, hence, no fruit. She could take up eating prickly pear.

That makes sense, but if he is allied with the Andromedans, surely that means that he knows where Star One is? Or did they get in touch with him somehow?

That makes sense, but if he is allied with the Andromedans, surely that means that he knows where Star One is? Or did they get in touch with him somehow?

Our local greengrocer now sells prickly pear. But I think it's imported.

He steals the brain print before our heroes get here.

Our local greengrocer now sells prickly pear. But I think it's imported.

Do you think Servalan suspects he has allies?

Good grief! Think of all those food miles!

I think this might be the one thing she doesn't foresee.

Have to agree. It would seem it hasn't occurred to her that Travis might have got fed up with being a fall guy for her and has decided to put an end to everything.

Have to agree. It would seem it hasn't occurred to her that Travis might have got fed up with being a fall guy for her and has decided to put an end to everything.

A lot of people are making wrong assumptions in this episode.

Maybe her disrespecting his offer was the final straw.

I'm sure she sees that he's fed up, but she wouldn't think he would go that far. But perhaps her presence here suggests that she suspects him of something.

That makes sense, but if he is allied with the Andromedans, surely that means that he knows where Star One is? Or did they get in touch with him somehow?

Do you think Servalan suspects he has allies?

I think this might be the one thing she doesn't foresee.