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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 27 May '01

27 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 27 May '01

27 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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Re: [B7L] B7 movie
by J MacQueen 27 May '01

27 May '01

>From: Steve Rogerson <steve.rogerson(a)mcr1.poptel.org.uk> >Andrew Sewell also said he had the rights to the DVDs and their launch was >only >a possibility. Sally, it sounds like some gentle persuasion is in order. Time to get out...the curling wand and the hairdryer! Regards Joanne _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: Blakes7 digest, Vol 1 #485 - 12 msgs
by Anna 27 May '01

27 May '01

Hi, all. > > Otis Lou Bohr wrote: > > > >On the other hand Americans' obliviousness to everything outside > >their borders is the Canadian media's primary source of humour (;-p). Then Susan Beth quipped: > Hey, I'm pretty good at Canada, know all the provinces, or as some > think of them, future US states 51-60. ;-) Hey, I remember a Wayne and Shuster skit, about us gaining an 11th province... the U.S.! <vwveg> But seriously, if Canada truly was taken over by the U.S., then it wouldn't be an extra 10 states, since I'm sure Quebec would insist on separating! ObB7: I find Avon the most fascinating character of the crew, because his actions can be interpreted two ways. > Susan Beth (susanbeth33(a)mindspring.com) Anna

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Re: [B7L] Re: Eclectic
by Steve Kilbane 27 May '01

27 May '01

Susan Beth noted: > Let's see, how fast do your trains go? Assume around 90, so about 100 > miles.... More like 5mph, with the current speed restrictions. > heck, that's hardly worth *mentioning*. I know a girl in > Colorado who drives 70 miles every week or so just to reach the nearest > movie theater. ;-) Yeah, but chances are, those 70 miles of road are probably a damn sight safer than the British rail system in recent years. steve

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B7 movie
by Steve Rogerson 27 May '01

27 May '01

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. When that's sorted, he is confident that he will get funding to make the movie, which he hopes will then lead to a new Blake's 7 series. The plan is for it still to be set 20 years after Gauda Prime. -- 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] Re: Eclectic
by Pherber＠aol.com 26 May '01

26 May '01

In a message dated 5/26/01 5:55:59 AM Mountain Daylight Time, susanbeth33(a)pop.mindspring.com writes: > Let's see, how fast do your trains go? Assume around 90, so about 100 > miles.... heck, that's hardly worth *mentioning*. I know a girl in > Colorado who drives 70 miles every week or so just to reach the nearest > movie theater. ;-) > <grin> I just hope traveling around Britain has more entertaining scenery than we have on the plains of Colorado! Nina

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