Mary's father came across as a bit hen-pecked. The way he reacted at the hospital suggests that, deepdown, he actually liked Straker but didn't like what his own wife had done to end the marriage. It's possible that Straker could do no right in Mary's mother's eyes.

I agree with Colin as well. I most certainly saw Mary's father as henpecked. And I see half the problems Ed and Mary had being caused by her medling mother. It would have been interesting to see how things would have worked out with her mom being helpful and supportive. Good plot for an AU story!

My biggest problem with Mary as always been her apparent lack of assuming responsiblity for her inaction when John ran into the road. People not taking responsibility for thenselves is a big pet peave of mine!

Her treatment of Ed in the hospital was cruel and cold, in my eyes regardless of her grief. My impression is that she never apologized making her actions unforgivable. But as I said before I base that on what I saw in "Subsmash" which took place a year or so later in my timeline.

There are so many unanswered questions here which makes the field wide open to interpetation. Louise called it the lack of an overarching theme, something that B5 did very well. And in a way I'm glad that the show wasn't tighter. I would never have been able to pull off "Mission of Mercy" or "Silver Star" had the plotlines been iron clad.

So thanks Gerry, you created a FanFic writers dreamworld!

Hi Louise,

ah well, the vagaries of fate - I too had a tad more work on my table today than I wanted  >

K-k, I'm looking forward to your new take on Mary! It should be fun as always.

With Silver bells and cockle shells,
And pretty boys all in a row

Kinda like the train that blew oo oo oo.

(Matt ducks as Louise throws a large heavy object at him. )

Timelash as an opera? :

The motion picture agency seems to perpetuate the myth that slapping a woman calms her down.

I just don't see Ed Striker, who is generally physically restrained hitting a woman, unless she was an alien.