I think Avon's comment about Blake as a god is another of his digs at Blake. Blake, as he increasingly does in later S1 and S2, refuses to rise to the bait and instead forces Avon to look at the real issue--the attraction and discomfort of power. At which point Avon, naturally, walks away from the whole discussion.
Blake and Avon are fairly ratty to each other in this episode. Towards the beginning, when Blake asks if Avon is sure about going down to the planet, Avon says (paraphrased): "Why, do you think I'll do a better job than you would?" Poor Blake can't win for losing--even when he shows concern, Avon twists it into a power struggle. Then Blake gets a little revenge in later, when Avon says he's going back to look for Jenna. Blake's "I think you'd better," is delivered with such anger, as though what happened were Avon's fault.
Avon's behavior towards Meegat makes a fascinating contrast. He's very gentle with her, and he clearly enjoys being worshipped, but somehow it makes him less arrogant. He's able to step back from his usual ferocious self-defense and say, with apparent sincerity, that he's not much of a reward for all Meegat's waiting. It says a lot about Avon that it takes a Meegat to get his defenses down.
Moving on to other stuff: the business about the two Ensors' name was handled confusingly. For the first half of the discussion between Servalan and Travis, it's "Ensor and his son," then halfway through, they start talking about "Ensor and his father." It makes me wonder if it was a mistake, somehow--if they weren't meant to have the same name, but there was a screwup through a hasty script revision or something. Or if Jacqueline Pearce just got the name wrong during the take and everybody decided it wasn't worth a reshoot!
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Blake and Avon are fairly ratty to each other in this episode. Towards the beginning, when Blake asks if Avon is sure about going down to the planet, Avon says (paraphrased): "Why, do you think I'll do a better job than you would?" Poor Blake can't win for losing--even when he shows concern, Avon twists it into a power struggle. Then Blake gets a little revenge in later, when Avon says he's going back to look for Jenna. Blake's "I think you'd better," is delivered with such anger, as though what happened were Avon's fault.
Avon's behavior towards Meegat makes a fascinating contrast. He's very gentle with her, and he clearly enjoys being worshipped, but somehow it makes him less arrogant. He's able to step back from his usual ferocious self-defense and say, with apparent sincerity, that he's not much of a reward for all Meegat's waiting. It says a lot about Avon that it takes a Meegat to get his defenses down.
Moving on to other stuff: the business about the two Ensors' name was handled confusingly. For the first half of the discussion between Servalan and Travis, it's "Ensor and his son," then halfway through, they start talking about "Ensor and his father." It makes me wonder if it was a mistake, somehow--if they weren't meant to have the same name, but there was a screwup through a hasty script revision or something. Or if Jacqueline Pearce just got the name wrong during the take and everybody decided it wasn't worth a reshoot!