Blakes7 February 2001

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Warlord
by M 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

Just watched Warlord again, does anyone else think Tarrant acts more like a teenager with Avon the guardian/ adult figure, at the end. OK his beloved is dead, but he's almost crying, running as though having a tantrum and lastly wasnt it a little obvious. She must go down, it's her job. Doh!!! It's just he's supposed to be a hardened space 'privateer', rebel, going around the galaxy. He's supposed to have a hardened an edge, understand the realities. Yet he seems a little niave and it's not just this episode. Maybe some-one can help me out with the episodes, but apart from Avon becoming boss-man, he also seeems to become the paternal figure with Vila the friendly uncle!!?? M. _______________________________________________________ Get 100% private, FREE email for life from Excite UK Visit http://inbox.excite.co.uk/

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Re: Re: [B7L] Deliverance
by Sally Manton 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

I know, I *know*, I know I said I wouldn't, but ... Wendy said: <If we've already agreed that the rocket is a metaphor, than the children thing can be a metaphor too, can't it?> Sorry and all that, but no one *has* agreed with the rocket-metaphor, have they? And no, IMHO, the children can't. It's just stock footage; they're just a plot device, like the ones in Time Squad. and in answer to Neil's : <I think it's clear by now that the subliminal message of the text is so subliminal that most people haven't even noticed it before ...> <but why *is* it that people miss out on this subliminal message?> Well, if something's so faint one can barely see it with a microscope, one tends not to notice it when simply gazing at a TV screen ... But, as I hope I've made clear, I *do* see the sexist message, I just see it as skewed and turned into something rather richer and stranger by the actual characters involved, especially Avon. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: [B7L] Deliverance
by Sally Manton 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

Mistral wrote: <A rocket does not _equal_ a phallus. Symbols can sometimes illustrate reality; they do not ever define it.> <gurgle> actually, I've been reminded of the American professor we saw on the TV years ago who passionately insisted that the telephone *white* pages were sexist because they were *deliberately* white ... To rewrite an old saying' "never ascribe to malice what can be perfectly well explained by stupidity", one shouldn't (IMHO) ascribe authorial or producorial design to what can be explained by the basic realities of 1970s series production. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: [B7L] Deliverance - sorry, 'tis early in the morning ...
by Sally Manton 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

Not quite five, actually. The "American professor we saw on the TV years ago who passionately insisted that the telephone *white* pages were sexist because they were *deliberately* white ..." ... actually insisted they were *racist*, of course. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: [B7L] Deliverance
by Penberriss Wendy S. 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

--- Neil Faulkner <N.Faulkner(a)tesco.net> wrote: > From: Penberriss Wendy S. <penberriss(a)yahoo.com> > > > > Recently I have watched the episode Deliverance > and > > was surprised to see how sexist it was! Worse than > > Power, even! What do other people think? > > I think the difference between the two is that > Deliverance, whilst betraying > the sexist mindset of its author, is not actively > promoting a misogynistic > agenda, whereas Power is. No, sorry Neil but Deliverance is far more misogynistic than Power. In Deliverance Meegat is totally subservient to Lord Avon. She's incapable of launching the rocket herself and requires a man to do it. The rocket is nothing more than a crude metaphor and once the gene bank is launched Avon leaves her, to die presumably. See also my answer to Marion. Wendy __________________________________________________ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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Re: Deliverance
by Helen Krummenacker 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

> By making him look > like a bastard for kicking her in the teeth any time > she bows down? Hmm? I must have missed the scene. But I *do* remember him gently raising her up to her feet. I suppose you read this as him dominating her, or her being unable to stand up for herself-- I, on the contrary, felt the message he was trying to give her was that he respected her and (while he wasn't going to dispell her belief in his demigod status) that she should address him without undue deference and ceremony. I don't know how she acted around her own people, but the fact she *didn't* contact anyone else for 'what do I do now' seems to indicate that, when not in the presence of the Prophecized One, she is quite the boss of herself. Please bear in mind, he is a religious figure to her. It is not necessarily any more embarrassing for her to kneel before him than for a Wiccan to make a shrine to the Goddess.

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Space, the final frontier
by Natasa Tucev 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

Mistral wrote: >[For that matter, with the whole penetrating the void thing, maybe space >exploration is in itself sexist and aggressively masculine, and we >should stay happy and ignorant right here on Mother Earth. I know this was meant to be an ironic statement, but there's something about it that bothers me. Lots of parallels could be drawn between space exploration and the process of colonization in the past. Exploring and colonizing Africa was promoted by European propaganda as a noble enterprise of 'enlightening savages' and bringing them merits of civilization, but in many ways it was actually penetration, rape and abuse of the dark continent, an aggressive masculine act. In 'Dusklands', by Coetzee, a character called Jacobus states this very clearly: I see myself as an explorer of darkness. I penetrate the darkness with the brightness of my intellect and my blue eye. If this doesn't work, I use my gun. There are great many connections between the imperialistic conquest of wilderness and the rape of women. I don't think much has changed in the imperialistic consciousness inherent within the dominant culture. If the human race eventually sets out to find new worlds, it will be with the same masculine, aggressive desire for penetration and conquest as before. I'm not saying we ought to stay on this planet for ever, but I wish we could start exploring the Universe with a somewhat different attitude. In mid-December, with + 18 C degrees outside instead of harsh Balkan winters we used to have before, I turn my TV on. Dragging his body on a pair of crutches through some sort of botanical garden, a scientist talks about creating human habitats on Mars. Cool - with some luck, we may even manage to hop onto a new world before we totally destroy this one. Sorry, I still have more sympathy for the primitive consciousness which viewed this world as a beloved mother, than for the consciousness which views it as parcelled property to be irresponsibly consumed and eventually discarded. I don't think it would hurt if the exploration of space were conducted with the former. Oops, no B7, except maybe B7ish gloom. N.

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Stardrive in SFX
by Steve Rogerson 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

The new issue of SFX (no 75) in the UK features Stardrive as one of the three episodes in its couch potato feature, though there seems to be more said about jumper sniffing than the episode, but there is a bit of someone salivating over Avon. -- cheers Steve Rogerson http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson Redemption: The Blake's 7 and Babylon 5 convention 23-25 February 2001, Ashford, Kent http://www.smof.com/redemption

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Re: Lysator's new Look
by JEB31538＠cs.com 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

Calle, I finally checked my settings and my digest was set in MIME. I changed it to TEXT and now I am free of all that annoying extra nine lines (or more) in the headers. Until I got today's digest, I had not realized how totally obnoxious that had been. So my problem with the new system is now solved. Joyce

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Where did all the locals go? [was Re: Deliverance ]
by Harriet Monkhouse 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

Jacqui asked: >And how come the 'locals' disappear after the one episode? The Seska were dead. And Nina said she was going to take the Hommiks somewhere else. I may detest Ben Steed for traducing Pella, but he did remember to clear the stage afterwards. Harriet

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