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Re: [B7L] B7 movie
by Sally Manton 29 May '01

29 May '01

Steve R wrote: <Andrew Sewell was speaking about the planned B7 movie at Eclectic this weekend. The delay has been that the script has undergone a rewrite because he wasn't happy with it.> <sigh> One can't help wishing they would all give up and go and find something else to make a mess of ... Wasn't it supposed to start *filming* last year, though? Must have been a *really* bad script to make that amount of re-writing necessary <veg> <When that's sorted, he is confident that he will get funding to make the movie,> Dunno. The second radio play stiffed; the re-runs were taken off after 1st season; the BBC doesn't appear to me to be any more enthused (possibly less). And the Dr Who movie led precisely nowhere as far as TV is concerned. Sorry and all that to those who are looking forward to the movie, but ... I really am *enormously* more enthusiastic about the DVDs of the series itself. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Chronicles 65 available
by Andrew Williams 29 May '01

29 May '01

Issue 65 of Chronicles, the long-running B7 genzine is now available from Susan Batho. It is the print version of Narrelle M. Harris's 'Phoenix 4'. Although the on-line version is available from her website, the print edition has a little bit extra that you won't find elsewhere. A4 format, 55 pages. The cost (in Australian dollars) is $5 per issue plus p&p as follows: Within Australia: $1.47 To England/Europe: $4.50 To USA: $4.50 All cheques/drafts/money orders must be made in Australian currency, but remember the exchange rate is very favourable for overseas readers. Please send your orders to Susan Batho at: 6 Bellevue Road Faulconbridge, NSW 2776, Australia C66 will appear later in the year and features a fantastic story by Marian de Haan. Submissions are wanted for C67 and future issues (gen only). We are hoping to make issue 67 a Blake-oriented zine, so if you have gen piece looking for a home, please let us know. We will also take Blakeless B7 under consideration for later issues. Art is also most welcome. Regards, Andrew.

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Re: Mapreading for beginners (was: [B7L] Eclectic)
by Sally Manton 28 May '01

28 May '01

Stephen Date wrote: <Just as well Zen was in charge of Navigation really otherwise you could have had the scene where Avon berates Vila for setting the coordinates for Destany (Federation military outpost) rather than Destiny.> What Vila didn't mention, of course, was that Destany was "one of the old Federation Rest Centers. Sensory ecstasy hours, pleasure machines ... ohh." (Avon ain't the only one who's been at the databanks looking for boltholes, but Vila has slightly different ideas on what makes bolting worthwhile. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Geography (was: Eclectic)
by Sally Manton 28 May '01

28 May '01

Penny wrote: <ObB7, um...do you suppose everyone speaks with British accents because North America and Australia got wiped out somehow (but English - the language - continued taking over the world), or at some point did the North Americans etc. all start affecting a British accent in order to sound cool?> It is patently obvious what happened, surely - at some time in the near future, North America, Australia and the rest all decided that an itsy bitsy mistake had been made along the line ... and voted to rejoin the British Empire. And if anyone believes that, I have a slightly damaged Star One I'd like to sell you ... _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Episode review - Cygnus Alpha
by Sally Manton 28 May '01

28 May '01

Iain W wrote: <So Blake, Jenna and Avon are on a new and strange ship. The survival priorities should be air, water, food, heat & light, but they don't even discuss these things. In other episodes we know they don't take these things for granted, so what is going on here?> It's that weird time-line problem again, the bane of Playing the Game in the first few episodes. If they were half-way to Cygnus Alpha when the events in Spacefall took place, then we have to swallow the idea that they were on the Liberator for four months and [a] got the food, water, air etc controls going without meeting Zen (wonder what the food looked like :-)?); and [b] managed to miss the doors to the Treasure and Wardrobe Rooms for the whole time (one hopes they found the washing machine, however, since they only had one set of clothes each). Personally, I'd've much rather gone into the detail of their first few days on the ship, trying to find these essentials before they starved, and with the accompanied risks involved in trying out each new piece of alien technology and hoping it isn't the self-destruct, than met the un-Kryptic Kult. <Even when they are stuck on the planet, Vila is still telling jokes - does he take nothing seriously?> Oh yes (see the start of City); here it's partly a reflex reaction to nerves, I think. <Blakes first LIE. He doesn't tell Jenna and Avon about being assulted. Grrr..> Do be fair to Fearless Leader. At this stage, wouldn't YOU treat what you said to Avon with a fair amount of caution? <We have now gone three full episodes into the show and not one mention of football.> There are some things to look forward to in the future then ? ;-) _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Eclectic
by Steve Rogerson 28 May '01

28 May '01

Down and safe in leicester -- cheers Steve Rogerson http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson "In my world, there are people in chains and you can ride them like ponies" The alternative Willow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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Re: [B7L] Eclectic
by Marian de Haan 28 May '01

28 May '01

Sally wrote: >ObB7 - they are *really* lucky that Zen has all the maps, aren't they? all Our Heroes need is a fine vague Fearless-Leaderish "standard by six to Planet Fred" ...< It seems like they must all have an in-built compass because they never get lost when on a planet. I would have got hopelessly lost in the Duel wood within five minutes and after roaming on Cephlon for an hour I'd never be able to find the meeting point again. Now this makes me wonder whether Vila really went searching for Jenna or just hid behind the nearest boulder to make sure he wouldn't get lost. :-) Marian

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Many Vilas
by Leia Fee 28 May '01

28 May '01

Steve wrote... >I've always wondered about the different Vilas we see, the Vila the coward who >doesn't want to get involved in anything and the Vila who can handle ship weapons >and fly the ship, and of course that scene in Blake were he professionally disarms >and knocks out Arlen. It's one of the things I like about Vila that little bit of unpredictability. Usually he's just going to be his usual cowardly sneaky self but then from time to time he goes and does something really rather brave or clever. We see Blake behaving quite differently under the influence of the Federation conditioning and we don't know how similar the methods were they used to 'adjust' Vila but I wonder if it could have given him a split personality of sorts. Leia

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Trust
by Andrew Williams 28 May '01

28 May '01

Sally wrote: >Even if the word itself isn't mentioned (I haven't checked them all), I do >see it as a major theme in quite a few other episodes, the Cygnus Alpha/Time >Squad duo, Bounty, Horizon, Powerplay and Rescue/Power (in which we see >trust badly cracked by Terminal) at the least. I think it can also be tied back to Avon's "I'm a man of my word", since it relies on others trusting in his word. In Warlord, Zukan is the anti-Avon since he doesn't believe in words and won't take anything on trust. Then again, this may be a characteristic of all warlords since <insert crap acting> "words...are only words".

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Re: Zine lists coming up
by Sarah Thompson 28 May '01

28 May '01

Tavia asked: > This is an interesting statistic. At risk of waking the [[...]], might I > ask how is your zine database organised -- would it be easy to analyse > trends over time wrt the proportions of gen, slash, het and mixed ? It's not really a database at all, just a list. All the sorting is done by hand. There are several reasons why I didn't set it all up as a proper database in the first place. For one thing, I'd have to learn how. I am not very good with computers and basically just use them as glorified typewriters and telex machines. Also, the database programs that I have seen do not print out in a very neat way, and I was planning eventually to do a paper version (although at this point I may not after all, given the price of printing. Possibly CDs are the way to go...). (Oh-- for anyone who wonders what I'm talking about-- those zine title lists are the tip of the iceberg. I also have contents listings for most of the zines; you can find much of the material on Judith's website.) And when I go over the material repeatedly, I catch more of the mistakes, which are many. I don't really mind, because the whole project functions for me in somewhat the same way that playing solitaire does for many people-- it takes just barely enough brain power to make it interesting, and the repetitiveness is kind of soothing. (Of course, it's precisely because I do it when I'm almost asleep that I make so many mistakes, but happily they are very fixable-- to my mind one of the greatest advantages of computers over typewriters.) Anyway, feel free to play with the raw data if you like. When I do things like search for a certain type of story, I just search and pull out what I find, rather than having any kind of automatic sorting mechanism. Sarah

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