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Re: Blakes7 digest, Vol 1 #724 - 7 msgs
by M 16 Nov '01

16 Nov '01

Blake - a silly idea How about in Warlord they are all captured and placed in a VR machine. Ditto Blake is there, they are forced to relive the last scene again and again until they wake up 10 years later. The men with beards, very incongrous because the nails are the right length. And hey presto Blake: The Later Years M. _______________________________________________________ Get 100% private, FREE email for life from Excite UK Visit http://inbox.excite.co.uk/

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Fwd: [B7L] Survivors
by Jean Komatsu 16 Nov '01

16 Nov '01

>From: "Ellynne G." <rilliara(a)juno.com> >Subject: [B7L] Survivors >Let's see, silly ideas. > >Silly Idea #4 >Avon ducked. The guards shot each other. > The best ideas are always the simplest. I vote for #4! After all, it's well known in sci-fi that people are always shooting big blaster-type guns at one another, and hardly any of the bolts/charges ever hit. When really, if you think about it, targeting should be computer-augmented and pretty darn automatic that if there's a large warm target anywhere in front of you, it's going to get hit. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Pressure Point
by Steve Rogerson 16 Nov '01

16 Nov '01

Just been watching Pressure Point and it occurred to me the title was rather odd. Anyone know why it was called that? Given their tendency to one-word titles, maybe "Control" would have been better; at least it would have related to the episode. -- 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: [B7L] *Happy* Anniversary?
by Ellynne G. 16 Nov '01

16 Nov '01

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 07:42:27 +1100 Tony Nolan <t.nolan(a)uts.edu.au> writes: > In the book, avon, villa & Tarrent survice, and play roles in the > book. Just a question I've had about this book since I read a summary. We all know Avon's supposed to have a brother of some sort out there, but the book (I understand) gave him a sister. Was there an explanation or do I want to know . . . ? > we know that Slave and Blake diffently died. Slave, being a machine, could always have a few new spark plugs added. As for Blake, while it is extremely difficult to be shot four times in the main body and not have anything vital hit, I understand there are precedents (and that's just namby-pamby, our era type medicine). As for Dayna, same argument on vital material and/or recovery. Also, it has been pointed out that Blake, not being nearly so trusting, might not have been letting Arlen run around his base with a real gun. Then, there's the favorite argument about this all being a set up by Avon and Blake to make a convincing show for the Federation (or others, I suppose) that they're dead. Ellynne ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

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Survivors
by Ellynne G. 16 Nov '01

16 Nov '01

Let's see, silly ideas. Silly Idea #1 Slowly, as if in a dream, Avon looked up from Blake's blank, staring eyes. He saw his . . . friends. Yes, he could admit that, now it was too late. He saw his friends, lying dead around him. He saw the Federation guards, their weapons pointed at him in a moment that seemed to stretch on forever. So, it ended as he had always known it would from the very begining. He smiled, raising his gun, and - "Barkley, turn off the holo-deck and get over to engineering." Silly Idea #2 Same as above only it's the Red Dwarf "Back to Reality" episode. They wake up and find they've spent the last four years making a hash of the most popular virtual reality computer game around. Avon discovers he's really Dwayne Dibbly, etc. Finally, before they all get suicidal, Orac and Slave get through to them. Pylene-50 is really a despair drug and they're back in the first episode where it showed up. The rest of S4 was an hallucination meant to make them suicidal. Silly Idea #3 All this time, they really were minor characters on the edge of a bigger story. Just when all seems lost, Gollum falls into the pit of doom with the one ring. Gandalf comes flying in to pick up Frodo and Sam and grabs the other characters who happened to be lying around for the heck of it (the Federation soldiers, being low level Sauron minions, turn tail and run when the ring is destroyed). Avon is revealed as Boromir and Faramir's geeky brother, Avomir (who was left out of the tales for a good reason). Vila's a Hobbit. Orac's a palantir. Cally, despite having evidently died in the pits of Moira (Terminal in some lower tongue or other), shows up alive and well. Blake has difficulty adjusting to this view of reality. Silly Idea #4 Avon ducked. The guards shot each other. Ellynne ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

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RE: [B7L] *Happy* Anniversary?
by Nicola Mody-Nikoloff 15 Nov '01

15 Nov '01

Sally Manton wrote: > > ...on 21 > December, it will be the anniversary of the most vividly remembered, > endlessly argued over and utterly memorable episode of > Blake's 7: 'Blake'. > > Shouldn't we do something in memory? Hold a wake? Work out > once and for all > <veg> who made it through the shooting party? Have a 'most > creative or > unlikely PGP' competition? Or just weep into our virtual > glasses in salute? According to Paul Darrow, only Avon survived. Pity, as Michael Keating has been involved in cons and the two radio plays, and I'm sure he'd be pleased to do at least a guest spot in the film... I'd prefer to believe more survived than Avon. Dayna's probably dead; she looked it, and was the only one shot with Arlen's gun. The others all went down, but there was no blood; perhaps they were stunned. Or as Chris Boucher said in the Tony Attwood guide book, they went down in slow motion so it could always have been regarded as a drug-induced dream. He also said that he could have brought back any character whose actor wanted to be in a 5th season. Michael Keating also said in the same book that he thought Vila would have survived and got away, probably by stowing away on a ship and going to ground somewhere. Sorry, the book's at home so I'm quoting from memory. 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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Headcount!!!
by Pherber＠aol.com 15 Nov '01

15 Nov '01

Just got up and saw the news -- is everybody in the NYC / Newark area OK? Did the British contingent at Econ get out or is everybody stuck in Newark? Nina

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RE: [B7L] Dragon Lady
by Nicola Mody-Nikoloff 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

Sally Manton wrote: > Nicola wrote: > <Is it just us, or does the dragon remind anyone else of > Servalan in several > scenes? Those long eyelashes and that predatory smile!> > > Hmmm, sounds even more like Avon to me ... Well, she was wearing a lot of lippy! Can't see Avon doing that! Oh, maybe I can... 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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soldiers of Love
by Judith Proctor 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

Soldiers of Love 8 is now available. If anyone wants to purchase the series so far as a set, contact me and I can probably manage a discount on any order of four or more CDs. Judith (off-list as usual) -- http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7 - Fanzines for Blake's 7, B7 Filk songs, pictures, news, Conventions past and present, Blake's 7 fan clubs, Gareth Thomas, etc. (also non-Blake's 7 zines at http://www.knightwriter.org ) Redemption '03 21-23 Feb 2003 http://www.smof.com/redemption/

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Re: Headcount
by Steve Rogerson 14 Nov '01

14 Nov '01

Joanne said: "but the plane was temporarily mislaid?" Because there had been a shut down for four hours, when they resumed schedules a lot of the planes were not in the place they should be. When they went to get our plane to taxi it to the gate, it wasn't there. They eventually located it elsewhere in the airport. The imagery of the person who went to get it is amusing (think of going to a car park to find you car is stolen and you are looking at an empty lot, now up that image to a missing aeroplane). -- 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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