Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1046-20130206052632/@comment-188432-20130206064755

SmallerOnTheOutside wrote: Okay. So are you still standing by your edit, then? Have you read Terror of the Vervoids? 'Cause information on that would be useful in this decision. I assume you have actually seen Terror of the Vervoids, or read its novelisation? If so, you'd understand why I stand by it. Janet is, according to both the script and the novelisation, a stewardess not a flight attendant. By that, it's meant to be inferred that she's like a ship's steward, a position of somewhat greater responsibility and certainly duration than a airplane flight attendant. The Hyperion III is much more akin to a naval vessel — or indeed the long distance Orient Express train for which it is an obvious metaphor – than an airplane.