Blakes7 May 2001

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A Word of Warning
by Kinkade, Carol A 21 May '01

21 May '01

<< Jenny writes: When animal camouflage breaks down. Birds of a feather flock together. >> AH! A confession. You ARE on the lyst under other names. Wendy? Fiona? Carol K (Avon Rules)

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When 'Animals' Camouflage
by Leia Fee 21 May '01

21 May '01

Leah wrote... >I have ambitions to rule the planet. and similiar.. What are you going to do with your other hand? ;-) Leia

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Back on Topic - Vila
by Leia Fee 21 May '01

21 May '01

Anni wrote >I always liked Vila best. Me too. Find it hard to put my finger on exactly why. I guess part of it is sympathy for the way he's so obviously out of his depth. His attitude conicides with my own on a lot of things. Running away is a perfectly sensible solution<grin> And then he does get some of the best lines. I really like his interaction with Avon and the way it changes through the series. >I also usually like characters with an "edge." I like Methos in Highlander My main reason for watching that show<grin> Also has a fine sense of self preservation and gets a load of great lines. Leia

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Orbit
by Leia Fee 21 May '01

21 May '01

I've always found it fun to play with different possible pairings and ouitcomes to Orbit. I can see Vila ending up with the thin end of the stick with most people actually with the probable exception of Blake. Avon I think valued his own life above pretty much everyone elses. he might have felt worse about shoving some of the crew out than others but I still think he'd have done it. Leia

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Smacks round the head
by Leia Fee 21 May '01

21 May '01

I said... >Did my foot in hitty fighty practice on Wednesday and am currently on >crutches At the time, not realising what I'd done I picked myself and >carried on fighting for another hour before walking two miles home. then Sally said... >Sorry to hear that, and hope you recover quickly. Thanks. I probably needed the rest anyway...I am the group victim/accident <wry grin>. Had far more than my share of smacks round the head recently<wobble>not to mention the whole 'falling-underneath-the-oncoming-charge-and-tripping-them-all-up-so-they- fall-on-top-of-me' incident... Speaking of... has anyone noticed how almost every SF series always has one character who seems to get more than their fair share of horrible tramuas? B7 seems to share them out more fairly. Almost everyone gets to have a good few crises' and smacks about the head. Leia Leia

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All Gone?... Naaah.
by Jenny Kaye 21 May '01

21 May '01

Bob wrote: All Gone? > > > >Hello? > > > >Helloo?? Anybody here? > > > >(damn ...) > > > >HELLO? > > > >ANYBODY? THERE'S NOBODY HERE BUT US CHICKENS!!!! > > > > > >( ... and then there was one ...) I'm still here:-) > >Question: > > > >Given the entire Internet to hide in; The listserv computers programmed to > >avoid all contact with "Slashers", "Programmers" or "Freedom City"; > > > >How long could I maintain myself? Answer: Well, you can avoid Freedom City and Lysator, but Slashers and Programmers are a bit different. What you have to do is learn how to identify them and then killfile the bastards. And if they come back Killfile then again. And keep killfiling until they bugger off. > > > > > > > >Just wondering Oh BTW if you want to have a good laugh, take a look at Stephen Date's recent gaggle of emails. Total bollocks, but very amusing. But that's social conditioning for you. Also if you get a chance, take a look at a book called "The Hidden Persuaders" by Vance Packard. Or a film John Carpenter did about ten years ago called "They Live". "I've come here to chew gum and kick ass. And I'm fresh out of gum." Jenny _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: Space Fall
by Steve Rogerson 21 May '01

21 May '01

Dana said: "perhaps the preference for exile on prison planets instead of execution is an officially atheistic regime's version of a "fate worse than death"--since the Federation doesn't believe in eternal damnation, they want to give you years and years to regret annoying them" This is very possible and kicks straight into the debate you get today over the death penalty; which is worse, the electric chair or life imprisonment. The ST: Voyager episode we saw on Sky in the UK a week ago tackled the same debate. They were helping transport some prisoners who were sentenced to death and discovered that one of them had psycological disorders due to a physical problem in the brain, which they fixed. However, he's still done the crimes, should he still be sentenced to death? It was made more relevant with Seven of Nine, who had also committed attrocities while she was Borg, but hadn't been punished at all. Sorry, drifting off topic. So, is a life on Cygnus Alpha better or worse than execution? And who decides? Also, in the 100 to 150 years that it had been going, the religion had developed. It also seems that, apart from dropping of prisoners, the Federation leaves the planet alone. How long then before it develops a different, more advanced civilisation? Also, how is it guarded? Surely Blake wasn't the first person to think about breaking out some prisoners. The drug cover story also falls down if you have a strong enough force; you go down and steal the drug when you free the prisoners and then manufacture more of it, as Blake at one point was planning to do. -- 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: Vila the vegetable
by Bizarro7＠aol.com 21 May '01

21 May '01

In a message dated 5/20/01 6:25:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, steve.rogerson(a)mcr1.poptel.org.uk writes: << Gan strikes me as a potato, but don't ask me to explain why cos I haven't a clue. >> Oh, hah-hah...as if you didn't know he has a "chip." Clever fellow... Leah

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Re: [B7L] New frame captures
by Sally Manton 21 May '01

21 May '01

Joanne wrote of Jarriere: <Indeed. The need to explain things to him means he is the pivot, the very fulcrum upon which the plot turns, bends, whatever.> Do we have another convert here? ;-) <Right, Mistral, Sally, Harriet?> Absolutely. For what *earthly* other purpose could the entire episode have been written? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: [B7L] Federation political hierarchies & comparisons
by Sally Manton 21 May '01

21 May '01

Tanja wrote: <Of course, there is always the possibility that Servalan manages to do to his postumous reputation what Henry Tudor did to Richard III's, if she, with no more Avon obsession to distract her PGP, manages to get on top again and re-form the Federation.> Actually, that's a good topic for speculation, especially since there's no S5 to screw up the flow of imagination :-). Anyone like to guess at whether or not Servalan *did* manage to claw her way back? Me, I think not. For all the success of the Pylene program - and her success at becoming very very rich with the stolen gold - she did seem to be as stuck as an Outer World Commissioner at the end as she was earlier in the last series, she's no nearer to the *centre* of power. Call it pure personal preference, but I have this fond picture of her still a Commissioner (or even going subtly backwards), but still talking of how she expects to get her beloved power back, ten years on ... Anyone see it the other way? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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