On 17/11/2012 19:52, jack wrote:
> Some fifteen years later am going through the series again, now on DVD. 
Still such a great series.   One question on the Z episode.  Did Shadows
prefer telepaths to run their vessels, they were better at it than "normals"? 
Anna was never written as a telepath but she was written to have been hooked
up to drive a Shadow ship.  Did the Shadows use non-telepaths in other ways in
their vessels or is there an error in the writing?   Btw, listening to the
commentary for that episode I'd say that the show's writing is not too talky
at all.  There always comes a time in a complicated story when you finally
have to let the audience in on the big secret.  Often, say in an action movie,
like the Bond films, the expository fill-in is covered up by the villain
gloating throughout it, but here I found Justin, Anna, and Morden's
explanation not at all too long to hear out, even though I now know what's
coming.  It's three seasons of waiting for this moment so the payoff was worth
it.   
 What pr
obably as as a sequence did trouble me for its brevity was how quickly Ivanova
was able to bait the "Zog" First Ones into helping them.
>

The shadow ships were designed to be run by mundanes.  It is only about 
the time of "Ship of Tears" that the Shadows upgraded their CPUs.

Andrew Swallow
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