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Music videos, was site update
by Sally Manton 27 Nov '01

27 Nov '01

Mel wrote: <If you were making your own songvid, what music and clips would you include?> Ones that no one else has heard of, probably :-) since I'm shockingly uncool musically ... mind you, I've been listening to Sondheim's 'Assassins' on CD and found that the closing number - where they all sing "Everybody's Got the Right to be Happy" while pointing guns at the audience - I can *see* the Scorpio crew doing this!!! _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Re: Andromeda
by Steve Rogerson 27 Nov '01

27 Nov '01

Steve K wrote: >> But now I hear that we may not see any more of Andromeda for ages, as >> Sky has thought of a new excuse to drop it. > >Huh? What? Ratings have plummeted and apparently Sky is now putting it on hold at least until after it has run the first season of Enterprise in that slot, which probably means June or July before it returns. Sky though has been known to change its mind, but it did do teh same with season one of Andromeda, splitting it around the final season of Voyager. -- 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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B7 underwear
by Nicola Mody-Nikoloff 27 Nov '01

27 Nov '01

Further to my silly post about what underwear the crew would wear: I forgot Vila himself (as I was quoting him from his e-mails in my story). A further quote from him: " I've gone for silk boxers (very nice against the skin) in nice muted greys and browns." Nico *** This e-mail is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. ***

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RE: Re: [B7L] Re: familiar or formal
by jacquispeel＠netscape.net 27 Nov '01

27 Nov '01

"Ellynne G." <rilliara(a)juno.com> wrote: >On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 10:14:54 -0500 "Dana Shilling" ><dshilling(a)worldnet.att.net> writes: >> >> I'm about halfway through a "Comedy of Errors" story, where Blake's >> rebel contact, Rashel, thinks Blake is her husband, Reg Black the >> used >> spacecraft dealer (which makes perfect sense because he's one of the >> clones) and Vila's clone has a romance with Rashel's sister, and a >> gang >> of thugs repossesses Blake's teleport bracelet because they think >> it's >> the expensive watch that Reg hasn't paid for. >> >Every time I want to be jealous that someone beat me to a great idea, I'm >stopped by finding out they're doing a much better job with it than I >ever would. This sounds great. You _were_ intending to let people read >it when you were done, weren't you? (Pretty please? with sugar on top?) > >Ellynne Sometimes facts do overtake fiction - I had just started writing a (non-B7) story about a fake diary when the Jeoffrey Archer case came up (for non-Brits, among other things aforesaid JA was involved in, there was a slightly rearranged diary) - my story was quite different but... (and this is not the only time this has happened to me.) Jacqui -- __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/

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RE: [B7L] Re: Re:Blake and Vila
by Nicola Mody-Nikoloff 27 Nov '01

27 Nov '01

Betty Ragan wrote: > Sally Manton wrote: > > > It's also very forced, which prompts me to suggest - since > we *can't* simply > > cite Bad Writer Syndrome - that it's more for a reaction > for each other's > > benefit, as part of the sort-of-mending-fences 'pax' thing > indicated by > > Avon's open-hand gesture, than anything to do with Vila. > > I've *always* interpreted that scene that way. For one thing, any > issues of appropriateness or hurtfulness-to-Vila aside, Avon's comment > *isn't* particularly witty or amusing, certainly not enough to deserve > that kind of a reaction on its own merits. But it serves as an excuse > for Blake and Avon to indulge in that shared moment of laughter. I > don't think it *is* about Vila at all: it's about Blake and Avon > negotiating a badly-needed emotional rapprochement in one of the few > ways they're actually capable of doing so. IMHO, of course. I'd agree - it's a way of defusing tension between Blake and Avon, and I suppose a Delta's feelings aren't that important to anyone else anyway, and at this point Vila's very resilient. I don't think anyone but Cally, a couple of times, ever considered Vila's feelings. And even she joins in the inexcusable Vila-bashing after Chenga which I'm sure made Tarrant and Dayna despise him from then on. I've never forgiven Avon for that - insulting Vila while he was unconscious, then again later - obviously the two latest Alphas on board would consider him fair game after that. I think the worst B7 example of what I call the 'tinkly bits' (based on the tinkly music that Star Trek TOS used to indicate a bit of comic relief) is at the end of 'Children of Auron'. An entire race has been almost destroyed and Avon cracks that terrible joke and they all laugh. I just cringed. << DAYNA: What about Cally? Do you think she'll want to go with them? AVON: Cally will stay with us. We are closer to her than they are. Besides, a nursery of five thousand, would you want to go with them? [all laugh, Dayna passes tray, Vila and Tarrant take wafers] >> OK, it relieved tension but in such bad taste! At least poor Vila wasn't the target that time. Nico *** This e-mail is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. ***

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Fwd: Re: Desperately Seeking ObB7 Mostly OT Andromeda
by Sally Manton 27 Nov '01

27 Nov '01

Harriet wrote re Andromeda (which I haven't seen, so can't comment): <Though the 2nd-season opening credits/music are infinitely worse.> ;-) what do people think of our own credits/music then? _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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[Horizon_B7news] JACQUELINE PEARCE - SPECIAL PRICE ON DANGEROUS CORNER... (fwd)
by Judith Proctor 27 Nov '01

27 Nov '01

This just in from Horizon - might be a good idea if you've been hesitating about seeing the play becasue of the sometimes dubious reviews. Judith JACQUELINE PEARCE - SPECIAL PRICE ON DANGEROUS CORNER... We've just been told of a special preview offer of best available seats for £5 this week Mon/Thur evenings only, plus this Saturday matinee. The offer expires on 1st December. Luckily Ann & Pauline found out about it and it's too good a deal not to immediately share with you all. This may rather mess up our plan to organise a group outing, as not everyone will be able to down tools and dash off there this week, but the top seats are normally £35 so... If you want to see it during this offer, just call 020 7494 5085 and say you want the Showsaver offer - best available seats for £5 each and off you go. Enjoy. GARETH THOMAS Gareth will be recording 3x1hr episodes of 'Rob Roy' for Radio 4, playing Sir Hildebrande Osbaldistone and several 'other roles'. He'll be recording in mid December, unsure of a transmission date as yet. * * * * * Don't forget to visit the HORIZON website!! http://www.horizon.org.uk/ and our temporary Extra site with all the latest news: www.blessedbe.co.uk/horizon/index.htm Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

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In the mouth (was Re: Language)
by J MacQueen 27 Nov '01

27 Nov '01

>From: "Kai Karmanheimo" <karmanhe(a)cc.helsinki.fi> >Almost as hard as this foot (damn, should've washed me feet first...) Substitute eating a hat. That one of Servalan's in, I think, Pressure Point, might be nice as a sponge cake. If you like vanilla icing, of course. I just can't think at the moment of headgear you could reproduce using chocolate. Federation helmets are entirely the wrong colour... Regards Joanne _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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RE: Re: [B7L] Re: Language (was Betrayal and episode 'Blake')
by jacquispeel＠netscape.net 27 Nov '01

27 Nov '01

"Sally Manton" <smanton(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >Kathryn wrote: ><Actually, in B7, the thing that bugged me about the language use was not >the slang that the Space Rats used - I thought that was rather good - but >the jokes that Vila told in Ultraworld.> > >Oh I agree that that was dreadful (and :-( it wasn't even mildly funny >either). Sometimes the attempts to 'SF-ize' the language work quite well, >other times ... seems to me that imagery-based ideas - like Bayban's >'slimecrawler' and Vila's 'Tarzian warg-strangler' seem to work better than >attempts to make up new slang or swearing, which often sounds strained. I >*like* the warg-strangler, probably because I tend to imagine his wargs as >something like Jabberwocky as done by the Muppets :-) > > > Perhaps if one assumes that'language then' has been translated into the equivalents of 'language now' a number of the issues are resolved (just as some jokes in one language are replaced by an equivalent in the language being translated into - not an exact 'words' parallel but a 'meaning' parallel.) Jacqui -- __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/

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RE: [B7L] Fwd: Re: Desperately Seeking ObB7 Mostly OT Andromeda
by Nicola Mody-Nikoloff 27 Nov '01

27 Nov '01

Leia Fee wrote: > Sally wrote > >;-) what do people think of our own credits/music then? > > Really like the music and one of my favourite special effects > bits in the > series was the 4th series opening credits, zipping along the > planet then out into space. I agree! Season 4 is the one I like the least (in fact I think they should have stuck with ending the series on Terminal as originally planned) but the credits are way cool. When B7 was reshown here this year (rekindling my love of it) I still loved those credits, even though they've dated. Apparently they were based on 80s flight-simulators. In fact, one of the things I liked about B7 (S1 through S3 anyway) was their handling of technology - talking computers without displays or whirring tape drives don't date - but season 4, so disappointing in other ways too, tried to show too much specific tech like the big count-down numbers on Scorpio's screens, and Qute's computer display showing Orac hacking in; that has dated badly. Despite that, I do love those credits with the change to deep space mode. Nico *** This e-mail is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. ***

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