Blakes7 June 2001

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Avon & Nebrox
by Andrew Williams 19 Jun '01

19 Jun '01

Ellynne wrote: >Avon is stuck with Nebrox, his adopted grandfather. Tom Baker once suggested that the Doctor should have a frail old lady as a companion, because it would add to the drama and tension. She'd be hobbling away from the Daleks, for example, unable to move too quickly, and of course the Doctor would be unable to abandon her.

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Re: [B7L] Re: Duel
by Sally Manton 18 Jun '01

18 Jun '01

Kathryn wrote: <But to take the other appendage... another reason *I* like Blake's 7 is that they keep on fighting, even though it *is* a hopeless cause, even though they don't have any great chance of winning.> It's that obstinate, almost bloody-minded but quite wonderful refusal to give *up* hope, even when everything's so hope*less*, that I love. Sure, this springs from the same source as his bull-headedness (even Avon will accept the brick wall of reality if he runs into it hard enough. Blake simply looks for another way to go through brick walls), but that refusal to give up believing in what might be a fruitless, impossible, doomed-to-faulure but nevertheless *necessary* attempt is very important to me, gives the whole thing heart amongst the cynicism (so I'm sentimental, so sue me). <I don't think I could stand unrelieved hopeless doom, where nobody's idealistic or noble at all.> Me too. If it were just "The Dirty Dozen Find a Super Intergalactic Getaway Car and Go Off On a Crime Spree to Beat All" it might be fun :-) but I doubt it would have stuck in my mind all these years. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: [B7L] Re: Duel
by Sondra Sweigman 18 Jun '01

18 Jun '01

Natasa wrote: >Being brave and noble is fine, but in the universe of B7 and with enemies >such as Servalan it obviously doesn't suffice. This is why I appreciate >stories such as Sondra Sweigman's "Choice", in which Blake has to do much >more than just "sacrifice himself heroically" in order to save Avon. Thanks, Natasa. And if anyone wants to find out *how much* more, that story (like Jean Hubb's "Grey Scale", mentioned earlier for its look at moral ambiguity in time of war) can also be found in "The Way Forward: Crusades of Blake", available from me in the US, from Judith Proctor in the UK and from Pat Fenech in Australia. (If you get the idea that we have some unsold copies we're trying to find homes for, you're right :-)) Sondra

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Re: [B7L] Lost Causes
by Sally Manton 18 Jun '01

18 Jun '01

Joanne: <Una may be pleased to know that list includes Animals...> and Una: <Bet you'll love it.> How much do you wanna bet, then? 'How I Spent My Winter Holidays' ... with Og, Brian the Spider, little lettuce people and a mummy with a fake eye. Well, it beats camping ... I guess. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: [B7L] Lost Causes
by J MacQueen 18 Jun '01

18 Jun '01

> > > Oh come on, I'm sure we could between us all come up with Ten Good >Things > > > About Power surely ... I'm beginning to believe that, whenever it is I next take some annual leave, I'm going to *have* to spend some time taking another look at those episodes, like Power, that I've seen only once. Una may be pleased to know that list includes Animals... Regards Joanne _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: [B7L] Lost Causes
by Marian de Haan 18 Jun '01

18 Jun '01

Nina wrote: >As for GunnSar, I thought it was interesting that *he* was the one doing embroidery!< Embroidery may be the common pastime for men in Gunn Sar's society. Marian

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Re: [B7L] Lost Causes
by Pherber＠aol.com 18 Jun '01

18 Jun '01

In a message dated 6/15/01 1:48:57 PM Mountain Daylight Time, Judith(a)blakes-7.com writes: > I'd like to have seen Nina join the crew if I have a choice. She's my > favourite > character from that episode. She's more complex as she's a natural leader ( > she > led the Seska and seems confident that she can get the Homicks to do what > she > plans) but has layers to her charcter. Why does she love GunnSar? That in > itself either says a lot about 'Stockholm Syndrome' or else that there was > more > to GunnSar than met the eye. <smile> Well, she'd have Avon sussed in a New York minute! As for GunnSar, I thought it was interesting that *he* was the one doing embroidery! Nina

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Re: [B7L] Lost Causes
by Pherber＠aol.com 18 Jun '01

18 Jun '01

> > Oh come on, I'm sure we could between us all come up with Ten Good Things > > About Power surely ... > Vila's flustered babbling at Pella when she startles him while he's working on the door. Nina

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Re: [B7L] Re: offing the enemy
by Sally Manton 17 Jun '01

17 Jun '01

Jackie wrote: <He was painfully law-abiding in The Way Back and rife with leftover conditioning in Voices From the Past. <snip> Which raises another point, Blake's whole crusade against the Federation would fall under the category of *not* law-abiding behaviour.> You could say that <g> and throw in the fact that, having recruited a whole heap of crooks, he has no scruples about using their shadier talents (especially Vila's). <He went the other extreme, didn't he?, became a whole different Blake, one much more exciting to watch. Of course how much of law-abiding Blake was actual conditioning and how much of it was sheer drugged stupor, anyway?> Six and two threes? I'm assuming the conditioning was very intensive (probably more so than for others it was tried on) but it appears that it needed chemical help to keep it at full strength; plus, the Powers-That-Be don't appear to have had that much faith in it, since they seem to be keeping him under surveillance. Which, *given* his painfully un-Blakeian behaviour and timidity, which would have been a *really* boring job up to Ravella's appearance :-) _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: [B7L] Re: Duel
by heather wheeler 17 Jun '01

17 Jun '01

Judith Proctor wrote: >I don't believe that having the moral high ground means you will always win. >That's one of the reasons why I'm a B7 fan. It's closer to what I can believe >in. (I like UFO for the same reasons - hard choices have to be made and the >consequences accepted. Thank you so much for this Judith .... I was never able to articulate why B7 was so special, or why I liked UFO, but you've hit the nail on the head! Hev

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