Blakes7 January 2001

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Re: [B7L] Re: Alan Rickman week?
by Blenkarn 25 Jan '01

25 Jan '01

Helen said: > Well, now, it doesn't surprise me that Avon's fans (that voice!) should > also rather like Rickman (that voice!) Believe me, you don't have to be an Avon fan to succumb to Alan Rickman. He's mesmeric. BTW whatever happened to his film about Messmer? Cheers Chris Blenkarn

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Re: Blakes7 digest, Vol 1 #3 - 18 msgs
by Helen Krummenacker 25 Jan '01

25 Jan '01

"Calle's gadget works."

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Re: [B7L] ADMIN: Did it work?
by Natasa Tucev 25 Jan '01

25 Jan '01

> >If you're reading this, it did. >-- Yes, it did. Although I must admit I liked the old image better. (I am conservative.) N.

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Fwd: [B7L] Football
by Stephen Date 25 Jan '01

25 Jan '01

Hi - I've recently (re)subscribed to the list after a gap of nearly two years. I suspect that I am the only Exeter City supporter on the list and feel the need to make a few observations about our fearless leader. (Noel that is, not Roj) 1/ Noel Blake continues a recent tradition of sci-fi connections to our managers. Last year the supporters club news letter did a piece comparing Peter Fox to Fox Mulder, pointing out that Dana Scully was a much better sidekick than Noel, and that as adversaries go, various Space Aliens were more interesting than Plymouth Argyle ! 2/ Exeter's hated local rivals, Plymouth Argyle are little green men. (Well, they wear green shirts). Roj Blake was involved in the celebrated local derby between Federation FC and Andromeda United - thus creating a link between leaders called Blake and little malevolent green blobs of protoplasm. 3/ Blake's Seven couldn't afford decent special effects. Exeter can't afford decent players. 4/ Noel Blake used to play for Aston Villa, thus giving him a second connection with a well known 1970s TV series. 5/ Roj Blake fought an ultimately doomed battle. Hopefully these (rather forced) analogies break down at this point. 6/ In the book "Power, Corruption and Pies" which covers five years of the best articles from 'When Saturday Comes' there's a cartoon of a replica strip with the number 7 and the name "Blake's" above it - illustrating the year when such kits became ubiquitous. So Harriet is quite right, the programme has remained in the psyche of a great deal of football fans, which is unsurprising when you think about it. A lot of men my age have memories of getting interested in football about the time Blake's 7 was on. Stephen Date. ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie

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more B7 sightings
by Alison Page 25 Jan '01

25 Jan '01

My better half tells me that Blakes 7 was the subject of the eliminator round of 'who wants to be a millionaire' this week (as in 'put these four TV shows in numerical order'). Alison

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Re: [B7L] Was Avon a Crimo?
by Marian de Haan 25 Jan '01

25 Jan '01

Me: >>The first characteristic might make Avon elegible, but the last doesn't IMHO. Despite what Avon says in "The Syndeton Experiment", I don't see any evidence in canon of him enjoying inflicting pain.<< Tavia: >While I agree in general, I've always been worried by that 'Next!' bit in Shadow...< Yes, that feels out of character. My take is that he's been practising very hard on his shooting and unarmed combat, and now is elated to find he's passed the test :-) Marian

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Paranoia
by Natasha Sykes 25 Jan '01

25 Jan '01

In message <4KUI6hAfrsb6EwvV(a)southcom.com.au>, Julia Jones <julia.lysato r(a)jajones.demon.co.uk> writes > Calle, Deborah >and I thought that it would be nice to run a B7 version of Paranoia at a >con, seeing how very B7 the game is anyway. Thinking about it, it's amazing that Blake wasn't more paranoid. A typical Blake day might run: Travel to friendly planet to offer help to native people. Who try to kill you. Federation arrive. And try to kill you. After hair-raising scrapes (hair-curling?), teleport back to Liberator in traditional nick of time, to be reunited with friendly computer expert, who, for what it is worth, you have always trusted. And who kills you. (Eventually, anyway.) Which raises another question. Out of all the people Blake met, how many did _not_ try to kill him at some point or another? Of his immediate crew, I don't recall Vila or Jenna ever trying, but I think Cally, Gan, Avon, Zen and Orac all tried at one time or another. "Some days are better than others" Natasha Sykes

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Re: [B7L] Almost Famous
by Natasa Tucev 25 Jan '01

25 Jan '01

Dana suggested: >Blake = Paul, Avon = John Vila = George Gan = Ringo, >n'est-ce pas? Hmm... 'Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can... Imagine all the people sharing all the world... You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one... I hope some day you'll join us...' Doesn't sound much like Avon, does it? Besides, which one of them gets shot by a psychopathic admirer? N.

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Re: [B7L] Re: names and surnames
by Harriet Monkhouse 25 Jan '01

25 Jan '01

Joanne queried: >Is that Grego or Gregor, Harriet? Gregor seems > more euphonious in combination with Jarriere. >But that may not have been the intention... Definitely Grego. Euphony doesn't come into it, though I think it's slightly easier to say. The revelation hit me the other day when I saw a programme about 1981. They made this year sound an awful lot more tedious than I remember it, but I sat through it on the very faint chance of seeing the closing moments of Blake. In fact, one of the few things worth being reminded of was Gregory's Girl, and as I watched John Gordon Sinclair staggering about in goal it suddenly dawned on me that he was an ancestor... Harriet

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ADMIN: Did it work?
by Calle Dybedahl 25 Jan '01

25 Jan '01

If you're reading this, it did. -- Calle Dybedahl, Vasav. 82, S-177 52 Jaerfaella,SWEDEN | calle(a)lysator.liu.se "...a festering realization that all you do is no more than the futile slapping of paint onto the rotting, decayed infrastructure of the Information Superhighway." -- Jinx_tigr

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