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.   
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   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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