Yes, the Message from Avalon (or whatever) was one of the weakest.
I remember an unkind reviewer of the fist ep. referring to Molari as "Count von Bozo." Yet he turned into one of the most tragic, full-orbed figures I've seen in the secular arts.
Dan
I think he was cut out to be a scoundrel and then to mellow out. He got worse than he deserved at the end.