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Knightwriter Press
by Julia Jones 16 May '01

16 May '01

Please note that Linda Knight of Knightwriter Press has been hospitalised after a serious car accident. Arrangements are in hand to deal with outstanding zine orders and transfer agenting arrangements to the Waveney online shop, but they'll take a few days to sort out. The notice posted on the website is given below - Richard asked me to copy it here. Feel free to pass this on to any other relevant mailing lists for the fandoms Linda agents/publishes in. ******* Important Notice 13 May '01 - Linda and her sister Lil were in their car when it was hit by a logging truck. They've been in hospital for the last ten days, but should be home soon. Linda was still recovering from a previous admission to hospital when the accident happened, so it may take her a long time to recover fully. If you'd like to send a Get Well card, the address is PO Box 429, Maple Falls, WA 98266-0429, USA - please don't send zine queries with your card - the idea is to help her feel better, not worse! A friend will be looking after them for a while and helping with orders for Knightwriter zines, but please have patience as it will obviously take a while for her to get used to things. Linda asks me to reassure people that all orders will be filled, and e- mails replied to, but that she will need a few weeks to catch up even when she's out of hospital as she won't be able to do much work. For the time being, please place all zine orders via Waveney as we'll be looking after the paperwork side of things and arranging for the mailing of zines published by everyone except Knightwriter. Richard Proctor (Webmaster) Waveney website: http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7/Shop/Start1.cgi -- Julia Jones "Science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to believe whatever makes us feel good." - The Science of Discworld

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Re: script changes
by Helen Krummenacker 16 May '01

16 May '01

> We are talking about B7 here. During that period the writer was king. Terry > Nation created the series, he wrote the entire first season. It was script > edited by Chris Boucher. > I recall reading something about Chris Boucher admitting and explaining why some characters(actors) got all the good lines. With so little time for shooting, they couldn't do a lot of reshoots. Some actors delivered their lines word for word. Others did not. Naturally, the writers began to skew the scripts more and more to the people who would give the line as written. I believe that Paul Jackson was one of the ones not happy with the amount and quality of his lines. Logic suggests (but does not dictate), that writer and script editor were less than happy with his precision. (Nonetheless, Paul Jackson was very talented, especially if he knew the character was playing the double-game indicated in previous discussion. I've been in acting classes and some of the best people were not great memorizers.)

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Message style
by Steve Rogerson 16 May '01

16 May '01

Jenny said in response to Leia: "Ah, right here we have the tried and tested formula of attacking the style not the content." Not speaking for Leia, but in my opinion the style of your posts is the most offensive and arrogant I have ever seen on this list, and that's saying something given the number of years I've been here. -- 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: Space Fall
by Tavia 16 May '01

16 May '01

A few other points to add to Iain W and Jenny's interesting and informative posts. Avon -- Nova. I'm surprised no-one's yet brought this one up. Personally I reckon it's possible it's just coincidence (I managed to write simultaneously a B7 story involving a woman named Lexa and a non-B7 story involving one in a similar role called Alex without noticing the similarity of name). Is Nova intended to symbolise the light side of Avon, or something? Time and chance happen to them all. The deaths of Nova and Raiker suggest that this is not going to be a simplistic series, where either good or evil triumphs in every episode. The Liberator conveniently turning up like that can only be put down to luck. The role of women. I'm quite surprised that there are no special provisions for female prisoners. Are there usually no women transported? Or do the Administration simply not care what happens en route and under their guardianship? It's also interesting that Jenna is sent over to the Liberator (and a high assumed probability of death) with the two men without any comment either from Leylan or, for that matter, from Blake. The Liberator as a 'magic' object. I've mentioned this before in context of B7 as science fiction vs fantasy, but it's my contention that the Liberator bears more resemblance to the magic object of fantasy than the logical object of science fiction. It turns up when required, obeys the command of the hero alone (Blake being able to counter the defence device), is first described as 'fantastic', 'unbelievable', 'strange' and 'beautiful' (twice), and confers almost supernatural powers (a ship like this could go anywhere). Tavia

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Re: [B7L] Blake (was re: Limiters in general)
by Jenny Kaye 16 May '01

16 May '01

Honey Bunny "Sally Manton" wrote: > >Which of course begs the question touched on above ... turning the end of > >'Blake' around, if one of his own had betrayed him and he *did* decide he > >had to kill them - how would he react? See Trial if you want to find out. Pumpkin _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: [B7L] [B7] Debate?
by Jenny Kaye 16 May '01

16 May '01

"heather wheeler" wrote: > >Some lystians seem quite absurd! > >By insults and pleas undeterred > >they keep on and on > >'till all reason has gone > >determined to have the last word I fight for reason you see! But then on this Lyst that's just me Some loonies abound They think they're profound But to me they're a pain in the arse Jenny _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: [B7L] Truth
by Jenny Kaye 16 May '01

16 May '01

Ellynne G.wrote > >I was thinking of doing a looooong thing about the nature of truth but I > >think I'll let it go with three points. This'll be interesting. > > > >1) The exact same story really can vary in meaning to different people. Yes Dr Havant. > >I've had to believe this ever since someone trying to prove this told a > >rather long joke. At the end, everyone laughed. When asked why they > >laughed, the men said it was because it was the milkman. The women said, > >"Because he's dead!" Perhaps s/he didn't get the joke and was just laughing because everyone else was, and then when pressed had to come up with something. Unless you print the joke that story is pretty useless. > > > >Please note, we were all present at the same time for the same joke > >telling. Well done. You've learned "Gathering in groups". What next? > >2) If you really do believe there can only ever be one right > >interpretation, I can help. It's mine. There, doesn't that make life > >easier for you? Yes it does for me because I know you're wrong. > >3) In keeping with the above, I'm sure we all agree the version of Hamlet > >with zombies was definitive, right? In your head it probably is. > >And, in case anyone has any doubts, let me point out that Rosencrantz and > >Guildenstern _are_ dead. Not at the beginning of the play. See ya real soon Jenny _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: [B7L] Isn't it Slave's turn for the spotlight ... or something?
by Jenny Kaye 16 May '01

16 May '01

Neil Faulkner wrote: > >From: Jenny Kaye > > > Either Nation and Boucher are just > > > playing a game with us, or it was all leading up to something. If it was > > > leading up to something, what was it? and why didn't it happen? > > > > > > Any guesses? > > > >Why don't you tell them? Remember Neil, he who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken :-) But yes, it is all leading up to something :-) Jenny _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: [B7L] the limits of parody
by Tavia 16 May '01

16 May '01

Neil wrote: >Since recent discussion on this Lyst has shown how the >foreshadowing of the revelation of his true nature has >largely eluded the majority of fans over a span of more >than two decades, As I wrote earlier, preconceptions along the gentle (and slow) giant line. >If Blake had indeed been forced to kill Gan, as would seem to >have been Nation's original intention What an interesting idea for a plot -- where did you hear that this was Nation's intention? It would have seemed (to me) more likely that such a plotline might have been run in series 1 (ie instead of Breakdown, rather than after it), so the age of audience would have been unknown. >he - Nation, not Blake - would have sent a legion of bewildered >kids crying all the way to bed. Not exactly something to be proud >of. He'd have done less damage mugging them for their Smarties. As indeed Boucher and Ridge did somewhat later. Start as you mean to go on. Tavia

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Re: [B7L] We can't *all* be geniuses
by Jenny Kaye 16 May '01

16 May '01

Iain Coleman wrote: >Jenny, > > > >Please stop insulting my friends. Thank you. I'm not insulting anyone Iain. I'm just putting forward a few salient facts about B7. Facts that a number of people on here don't want to face, but also can't disprove. If you want to try to counter these facts then go ahead, but don't try and intimidate me by sending emails like this. Thank you. Jenny _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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