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Re: [B7L] Quoting B7 at friends
by Sally Manton 22 May '01

22 May '01

Carolyn wrote: <Stupid and expendable or not, I had to go.) <g>> and Leia: <You obviously weren't as convincing as Avon<grin>> Well, do be fair. *He* ended up going too. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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RE: [B7L] Freedom City (was Re: When "Animals" camouflage)
by Jenny Kaye 22 May '01

22 May '01

SLASHER Patricia Roberts wrote > >I will also reply to that, I'm not a "slasher" but do enjoy het erotica, > >and love FC and the people on it. Then you are a SLASHER. Jenny _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: [B7L] All Gone?... Naaah.
by Jenny Kaye 22 May '01

22 May '01

SLASHER Iain Coleman wrote: > > > I'm deeply hurt ! If I'm going to appear in someone's > > > delusional world That's true still. view I want to be one of those purple > > > lizards David Icke thinks runs the world ! Or Leah > > > Rosenthal ! I mean, Third Programmed Cultist, what a > > > let down. > > > >That's showbiz, luvvie. But always remember, there are no small parts: > >only small actors. A better one would be "there are no small parts: only small minds." Jenny _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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New Redemption guest
by Steve Rogerson 22 May '01

22 May '01

Blake's 7 special effects whiz Jim Francis will be a guest at Redemption (see sig for details), though probably only for one day. His most notorious effect was the explosive blood bags/squibs for Blake's death in the final episode. Jim also worked on Dr Who during the Pertwee and Tom Baker years. More recently he co-founded his own company, Specialeffects GB, based at Shepperton. This company provided effects for such shows as Red Dwarf VIII and The Tenth Kingdom. Already announced guests for Redemption are Chris Boucher and Damian London (who played the Regent in Babylon 5). -- cheers Steve Rogerson http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson Redemption 03, 21-23 February 2003, Ashford, Kent Celebrating 25 years of Blake's 7 and 10 years of Babylon 5 http://www.smof.com/redemption

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Re: Characters as vegetables
by Steve Rogerson 22 May '01

22 May '01

Leia said: "I can see Gan as a Farmer-Jones type somehow" throwing eggs at politicians and other countryside pursuits -- cheers Steve Rogerson http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson Redemption 03, 21-23 February 2003, Ashford, Kent Celebrating 25 years of Blake's 7 and 10 years of Babylon 5 http://www.smof.com/redemption

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Re: Orbit
by Steve Rogerson 22 May '01

22 May '01

Sally said: "Had Avon been on the shuttle with one of his below-weight crew, I somehow don't see Orac piping up like that. Since Dayna (or Soolin) *and Orac* would probably make the difference" That depends. Orac is a pretty tough box. It would have to decide what its best chance of survival was - in a crashed shuttlecraft with all that broken metal about or in a freefall to the planet. Neither offer much hope, but Orac would calculate it to the nth decimal place. -- cheers Steve Rogerson http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson Redemption 03, 21-23 February 2003, Ashford, Kent Celebrating 25 years of Blake's 7 and 10 years of Babylon 5 http://www.smof.com/redemption

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Re: [B7L] Re: Orbit
by Anna Simpson 22 May '01

22 May '01

At 15:34 20/05/01 +0000, you wrote: >M wrote: > >> >What always surprised me in Orbit is that - Avon hides a gun, Avon hidea >> >a >> >gun and Orac. SO why didn't Avon hide a teleport bracelet? Would have >> >saved a lot of hassle. OK, it would have ruined the plot. > >YOU CAN'T TELEPORT BETWEEN TWO FAST MOVING OBJECTS. I've always thought this sounded like a rather unconvincing fudge on the part of the scriptwriters to fill in an obvious route out of the set-up. As any Monty Python fan will tell you, *everything* in the universe is a fast moving object with respect to *something*. So presumably, the 'fast moving' refers to the relative speeds of the teleport pick-up and materialisation points. The standard proceedure for teleporting between two 'moving' ships seems to be matching speed and vectors (as in, for example, teleporting from Liberator to the Ortega in MtD). There is also a teleport between two ships in flight in 'Moloch', although the proceedure is glossed over. Both these examples involved the Liberator teleport, but the 4th season also provides clear examples of the teleport operating successfully when the departure and arrival point are in motion relative to each other (as Pella attempts to flee with Scorpio in 'Power', when Zeeona returns to Xenon base in 'Warlord', and as Scorpio plummets towards Gauda Prime in 'Blake'.) As Scorpio is most definitely capable of flying and manuevering within the atmosphere ('Traitor', 'Sand', etc) it would seem to be difficult to think of a convincing reason why Scorpio couldn't have matched the speed and vector of the shuttle to a sufficient degree to permit a successful teleport in 'Orbit'. Except, of course, that the Plot required otherwise. >Jenny love Anna

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Orbit
by Leia Fee 22 May '01

22 May '01

>Had Avon been on the shuttle with one of his below-weight crew, I somehow >don't see Orac piping up like that. Now I'm thinking about how much longer it would have taken Avon to decide that Vila could go if Orac hadn't said anything. Would he have checked with Orac how much Vila weighed? I f Vila hadn't heard them talking about it would he have guessed Avon would try to kill him? If Avon had found Vila how would the confrontation have gone. Oh I like this episode...so many possiblities so many ways it could have gone. Leia

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Quoting B7 at friends
by Leia Fee 22 May '01

22 May '01

I said... >>So many B7 quotes are so useful on a reenactment battlefield... <snip> >>"I just don't want to die - is that unreasonable?" ><grin> and did the others all come back with "yes!!" the way they did at >Vila? Um, yes actually<grin> there were one or two there I knew as B7 fans but a good half dozen people chorused 'yes!' it's a pretty obvious comeback. They wanted to throw me underneath the boarsnount charge again as it worked so well the time before - when everyone trod on me and promptly tripped over. Come to think of it,there've been shows I could have used Vila's complaint from Games - " I've been shot at, trodden on, nearly captured twice and now I think they're trying to blow me up. A fairly average day. You know. " more or less accurately. Ok I was being shot at with a longbow not a shiny gun and the cannon weren't *all* that close but aside from that pretty close<grin> Leia

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Quoting B7 at friends
by Leia Fee 22 May '01

22 May '01

regarding the >>the "I am not expendable, I'm not stupid, and I'm not going" line. Carolyn said... >>I got to use that one years ago, when I was "volunteered" to help with the radiation >>examinations on the Three Mile Island waste trains passing through the area. >>(It didn't help. Stupid and expendable or not, I had to go.) <g> You obviously weren't as convincing as Avon<grin> Leia

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