Blakes7 May 2001

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Re: [B7L] Chris Boucher
by Jenny Kaye 02 May '01

02 May '01

Sally wrote: >Oh, are you being sarcastic? > >This is (the last time I checked) a Blakes 7 mailing list. Possibly the >fact >that people disagree on interpretation points has led to the conclusion >that >some are on a Blakes 7 mailing list for reasons other than the fact that >they enjoy Blakes 7. Hey, wait a minute! All I did was make a bit of a joke, cause I thought it was a bit funny that the announcement about ebay told everyone who Chris Boucher was and that he wrote Rumours of Death, when they would surely already know that if they watch B7. So, 1/ it was meant as sarcasm but about a particular post, not a swipe at fans in general, and 2/ if the joke was on anyone, it was on Judith (and at that it was kindly meant). I wish people around here would stop getting so upset and snarky all the time. It's no wonder the Lyst's been quiet; I think everyone's scared of having their head torn off. >Topic (and previous discussion on Vila) closed. > >Okay, anyone want to discuss something deep and meaningful like Servalan's >wardrobe? Well, sorry, but wasn't it you who said a couple of days ago that there wasn't enough discussion going on? I'm sorry that you're upset, but I thought we were just airing our different views about Vila. If you're going to take it personally, then I don't want to discuss it with you either. A sadder and wiser, Jenny _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Website
by Una McCormack 02 May '01

02 May '01

My site has had a bit of a tidy up, and I've also moved it over to the new domain, so if you've linked to it on your own site, you may want to update: http://www.qresearch.org.uk/personal/blake.htm. There's not a ton of new stuff, but brand new is Sally's Special Site, which lists Ten Complimentary Things About 'Animals', and which you are urged to consider when next deciding what to throw on the bonfire: http://www.qresearch.org.uk/personal/sally.htm. Any inevitable problems with the HTML - let me know off-list. Una

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Testing and hello
by Leia Fee 02 May '01

02 May '01

Hiya Wouldn't normally bother posting an introduction but couldn't get this thing to send mail to the lyst for ages so am sending a test message and a hello in one. Been enjoying lurking...despite naming the computers on the network I set up at work after B7 characters I never knew there was such an enthusiatic fandom. Though I was the only doolally one. The lesser flinching Leia (yeah Leia actually is my name mum was a Star Wars fan OK.)

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Re: [B7L] Re: If you could change ...
by Sally Manton 01 May '01

01 May '01

After I wrote (re Gan and The Keeper): <And he'd pair-bond with Tara, of course.> Harriet asked: <But I thought that was Jarriere's job?> Fair enough, though I doubt Tara would complain about more than one bonding ... and I would still like to see Fearless Leader in that position, just to see if he was so blase about it *then* <g> BLAKE: Is Jenna all right? VILA: Only pair-bonding with the chief. BLAKE: Good. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Sun Makers on Video
by Steve Rogerson 01 May '01

01 May '01

The Dr Who episode Sun Makers is due for release on video on 9 July. This is the episode that Michael Keating is in. The Blackstar page is: http://www.blackstar.co.uk/video/item/7000000062970 -- 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] Chris Boucher
by Jenny Kaye 01 May '01

01 May '01

> >Jenny wrote: > > > > > That was a man called Doctor Who. > > > ><snip> > > > > > I hope this information is of some use. Una wrote: > >Jenny, that was a masterpiece. Can we have a retelling of some of the B7 > >episodes now? > > > > BLAKE Episode 13 series 4. Farmer Morgan, a man who looks just like Blake, but isn't, settles down with his wife and young son on the planet GP. He is an amateur radio enthusiast. Sending signals all round the Galaxy, and annoying people by asking them pointless questions like, "What time it is on your planet?" One of these signals is picked up by Orac. Avon thinks it *is* Blake and gets very upset that Blake appears to have been faking his death for all these years. Avon decides to take revenge. As Scorpio leaves Xenon Base, Avon remembers he's left the gas on, but by doing an impersonation of Slave and cleverly throwing his voice, he convinces everybody else on board that they in fact wanted to blow the base up anyway. When Soolin finds out that they are heading for GP, she makes up an incredible story about how she used to be a farmer!However, as Soolin has a silver spoon accent and is giving a very poor performance, Avon cleverly deduces that she is in fact a lying cow. (The inner processes of Avon's mind in this scene is made clear by the way the little finger on his left hand momentarily twitches. AND IT *IS* THERE!) Meanwhile, on GP, Farmer Morgan has started a war with some forest animals. This came about because one day when out for a walk, he got bitten on the face by a vicious flying squirrel. In retaliation, Farmer Morgan captures an innocent rabbit called Fluffy Tail. During its interrogation, (which involves cutting its head off and burning it) Farmer Morgan meets a young cross-dresser called Arleen. S/he also joins in the interrogation, and soon they are being attacked by a group of horrified animal rights activists. During the fight Arleen is stung on the leg by a savage bee. Up in space, Orac tells everyone that GP is a planet that has been bought by an environmentalist group. The initials GP standing for Green Peace. Two seconds later Scorpio comes under attack from the battleship "Rainbow Worrier". The others teleport down to the surface, and Tarrant crashes the ship into the planet, destroying 5 miles of valuable hedgerows, an apple tree and two rutting bears. That night, Dayna, Soolin and that loveable rogue Vila, break into a lonely farmhouse.Vila immediately starts smashing up all the furniture and burning it. He then writes the word, "WANKER" in excrement across one of the walls, before stuffing all the silverware down his trousers. "I wonder whose house this is?" he says, before stealing all the kiddie's toys. But he is soon to find out, because exactly three and a quater hours later Blodwin Morgan and her young son Taffy arrive to find that Vila has eaten all the leaks, broken all their Max Boyce records, and is now choping the legs off their Grand Piano. Luckily, just as they are about to call the police, Avon appears and brutally murders them both. Back at the crashed Scorpio, a group of Tree Huggers arrive in a flyer. They cry copiously when they discover the terrible damage Tarrant has done to their lovely countryside. But then Farmer Morgan turns up, and shoots them down with a twelve bore shotgun. The flyer crashes onto a nest of badgers, killing them instantly. Some dead leaves are creased, and a pine tree gets badly scorched. Farmer Morgan and Tarrant have a good laugh at the irony of it all, and decide to head for Green Peace HQ, "to teach those nature loving Lefties a lesson, or two". Back at Morgan's farm, Avon discovers a silver framed photograph of Farmer Morgan with his wife and son. The photo has the words, "See? I'm not Gay!" inscribed on it in black ink. Avon deduces from this that he must be a closet case. (The inner processes of Avon's mind in this scene is made clear by the way his right ear doesn't move at all.) Meanwhile, Farmer Morgan and Tarrant have blagged their way into GPHQ by pretending to be each other. However, Farmer Morgan turns nasty when Tarrant cracks his one and only joke about the Welsh. "What do you call a sheep tied to a lamp post in Cardiff? A Leisure Centre!" Tarrant tries to change the subject by asking Farmer Morgan about his root vegetables, but Farmer Morgan is unmoved, and so Tarrant runs for it instead. Avon and crew, meantime, have entered the base's reception area. Avon finds a new gun, and as he fiddles with the trigger accidentally shoots a woman dead. Avon, who normally treats women with great respect, and always acts like a gentleman, is horrified by what he has done. (The inner processes of Avon's mind in this scene is made clear by the way he dramatically shows no emotion at all.) He's about to apologise when Tarrant suddenly enters the room. Avon, mistaking Tarrant's bruises for red rouge and lipstick, immediately blows him away. Then Farmer Morgan turns up. "Are you Blake?" Avon asks, "No," answers Farmer Morgan. "Oh, okay." Avon says, lowering the gun, "Sorry to have bothered you! When's the next interplanetary bus due?" Farmer Morgan scratches his crotch, gives out an enormous fart and then says, "You've just missed it." They all leave anyway. The End As you will all no doubt be aware, this clearly accurate interpretation of the episode Blake fits seamlessly into my own personal and painstakingly worked out fannon. Jenny _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Games
by padme＠bantha.org 01 May '01

01 May '01

So the newbies are about to watch Assassin and Games, and I *know* as soon as we're done they'll ask how Soolin defeated the shooting game, because that's the kind of nitpickers we all are. I've never answered it to my own satisfaction. Two possible answers that occur to me: 1) She was deliberately slow on the first ones so she could beat the last shot. 2) She's Just That Fast; even a computer couldn't outdo her. Others? Thoughts? Claudia -- "Three million years in the future, the only suriving human rebel is Kerr Avon, his only companions, a creature that evolved from his pet thief, and a hologram of his dead shipmate, Gan. Additional; it has been two months since we discovered the still working ancient cloning facilities in deep space and Avon is running out of Blake's to shoot." --John McKenzie

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Re: [B7L] Re: If you could change ...
by Sally Manton 01 May '01

01 May '01

Stephen wrote: <Surely, if you're going to have an actor play Anna then there can be no objection to having Gan take over Jenna's lines in the Keeper :-)> And he'd pair-bond with Tara, of course. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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RE: [B7L] Re: If you could change ...
by Louise Rutter 01 May '01

01 May '01

From: Sally Manton <smanton(a)hotmail.com> > Here's another little exercise, if anyone's interested, in two parts: > > If you could change just three things about the series - with no > restrictions on cast, budget, scripting etc - what would they be? > (Obviously, *my* first would be "don't let Blake go.") Hmm - takes some thought to restrict myself to three, here, but this is the verdict: 1) Make sure David Maloney stays on as producer for the fourth season so it might have been as taut and tense as most of the scripts deserved rather than camped up. 2) Don't let Stephen Grief bail out! 3) Show it after 9pm so it wasn't softened up for the kids (but having said that, if that had been the case I wouldn't have been allowed to atsy up and watch it!) > If you could change just three episodes, which are they and how would you >do it? 1) Warlord. Ditch the crappy production including the bad hair and lightning effect and have it play out as the tense drama that's hiding in the script. And remove the line "Words are no more than words." 2) Weapon. Pick another director, any other director. 3) Stardrive. Make the Space Rats genuinely menacing, and have it play out as the tense drama etc. Louise

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Paul Daneman
by Harriet Monkhouse 01 May '01

01 May '01

Still working through the digests after a weekend away, but I haven't yet found a report of the death of Paul Daneman (Dr Bellfriar, Killer) on Saturday - I know he has many admirers, so thought I'd post just in case. Obituary in today's Guardian (Tuesday), yesterday's Times and Telegraph. -- Harriet "There is a place for all at the rendezvous of victory." - Aime Cesaire

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