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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 18 Jun '01

18 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 18 Jun '01

18 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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Re: [B7L] Re: Duel
by Natasa Tucev 17 Jun '01

17 Jun '01

Betty wrote: >Sally Manton wrote: > >> <grin> I spent some time trying to work out in my own mind what he would do >> if someone tried to use innocents (say, a spaceship full of children, and a >> self-destruct button) against him. Came to the conclusion he'd give himself >> up fast enough (from the evidence of Horizon) > >Or rather, he'd try to, and Avon would try to stop him, and then things >would get *really* interesting. IMO. :) In a story by Cami, the Federation troops defending a besieged base have imprisoned a number of civilians whom they threaten to kill. Blake wants to give himself up, but then Avon uses his computer (of course) to design a battle strategy which will enable the rebels to save the hostages. In a story by Shiela Paulson, Blake, Avon and three kids are cornered into a cave by Travis and his troops. Again, Blake is willing to surrender if Travis lets the kids go. Just then (of course) Jenna brings the Liberator back into the planet's orbit. This motif seems to have been used many times over. The problem with such stories, however, is that they very often neglect Blake's intelligence and present him as foolish and sentimental. Whenever Blake's afraid someone might die because of him, he hurries to surrender, without even considering other options, until someone wiser (usually Avon) points them out. Sometimes, however, there are no other options and then the story requires some deus ex machina to be resolved. N.

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Re: [B7L] Trivia query re Duel
by Sally Manton 17 Jun '01

17 Jun '01

Tavia wrote: <Does anyone happen to know what kind(s) of bat we see in Duel?> Besides rubber, you mean? <g> I don't think we get a close enough look to have an earthly. Any blood-sucking bat (or bat-like alien creature), probably ... _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: offing the enemy
by jstaylor 17 Jun '01

17 Jun '01

Helen Krummenacker wrote: > > On behalf of Avon: > Tried to kill Travis at least twice before > doing so. > Once he got his Very Own Implacable Emeny (TM), Servalan, he did NOT > kill her when he could for a very good reason: he could stop her with a > smootch. For an Implacable Enemy (TM) , she had a distinct weakness for > him. If the same could be said of Blake and Travis, they certainly > didn't show us Blake utilizing that advantage. OTOH, I'm sure the Slash > writers have considered the possiblity. . . .And not done nearly enough with Blake/Implacable Enemy (TM)! Melodrama, angst, betrayal, a death or two . . . Er, should this be on the Other List? Jackie

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Re: [B7L] Re: Duel
by Sally Manton 17 Jun '01

17 Jun '01

Jacqui wrote: <My comment elsewhere that Blake might have learnt some urvival/hunting skills on Exbar is probably part of the explanation.> Yes, that's mine too. BTW, would the fact that Blake's family could afford to send him on the trip indicate anything about their probable wealth, or is there anything in the show to indicate that long-range space travel for pleasure is cheap? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: offing the enemy
by Helen Krummenacker 17 Jun '01

17 Jun '01

Sally wrote: > I think there's an unknown Law of Nature at work here. Not only doesn't > Blake kill his implacable enemy, but (leaving the question of *everyone's* > sanity for the moment) Avon doesn't, > On behalf of Avon: Tried to kill Travis at least twice before doing so. Once he got his Very Own Implacable Emeny (TM), Servalan, he did NOT kill her when he could for a very good reason: he could stop her with a smootch. For an Implacable Enemy (TM) , she had a distinct weakness for him. If the same could be said of Blake and Travis, they certainly didn't show us Blake utilizing that advantage. OTOH, I'm sure the Slash writers have considered the possiblity.

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Staked Blake
by Kathryn Andersen 17 Jun '01

17 Jun '01

The Second Edition of Staked Blake is now up on my Kats' Eye Fiction page. <http://www.katspace.com/fiction> It is basically the same as the first edition, except that the layout is slightly different, it has two more pictures, and is two pages longer. And takes up half the space (yippee!) Why a second edition? Well, I needed to change the title page so that Judith Proctor could produce an edition (it was originally going to be printed by Linda Knights, but then...) and, well, just as Judith reminded me, I was deep into my campaign to never use another Microsoft product again (including Microsoft Publisher, which is what I had been using before). So... I decided to kill two birds with one stone. This new edition is unsullied by the hand of Microsoft (apart from those pictures which had already been produced with programs which run on MS Windows). It was produced on Linux with LyX and LaTeX and Gimp. It has been a learning experience... Kathryn Andersen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Sulu: I'll save you, fair maiden. (Star Trek: The Naked Time) -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen <kat(a)foobox.net> / \ | <http://www.katspace.com> \_.--.*/ | v | #include "standard/disclaimer.h" ------------| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | -> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe

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SFX poll
by Steve Rogerson 17 Jun '01

17 Jun '01

In the July issue of SFX (number 80), there is a readers poll to vote for favourite episodes from 19 shows, and B7 is one of the shows selected. -- 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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