In a moment of reenatorish panic I suddenly realised that I'm going to freeze to death in a few eeeks if I don't finish my nice warm wool tunic which I started redecorating at the end of last season thinking, 'Ah, plenty of time to get it done for York' is still not half finished.
Frantic kit-making in front of the telly is becoming something of a fine tradition and the video at the top of the pile was one of my B7 ones so I settled down to see how many times I could stab myself in the finger.
So here are my rather random collection of thoughts on _Games_
I like this episode a lot.
More or less everyone gets something interesting to do - well except that Avon seems to spend the entire episode yelling at everyone else and not actually doing anything very useful himself.
Mind you, almost everyone manages to screw up as well. Vila letting the guard spot him,Tarrant and Dayna getting themselves trapped, *all* of them falling for Belkov's game.
Almost everyone's double crossing almost everyone else - it's very B7 ;-)
A lot of the exchanges among the crew are so much fun. Little offhand remarks that really make you believe these people have been working and living together a long time and for all their bickering do get along pretty well. The scene where they find the stabbed guard is one of the best examples - Vila's quip to Dayna about improving the guns and the exchange between Tarrant and Dayna... TARRANT: Good shot though. If he hadn't already been dead, you'd have saved our lives for certain. DAYNA: Oh, do I get a prize? TARRANT: Sorry, disqualified on a technicality.
Incidentally why on earth (Or Mecron 2 for that matter) does Vila take that knife with him!
And why on any planet does Tarrant leave Vila as back-up? Okay he does manage to pull off a rather good one-man rescue, but only because Avon wouldn't bring him back up to the ship as he asked. (Which by the way leads to another of my favourite lines.... VILA: Oh nothing much, I've been shot at, trodden on, nearly captured twice and now I think they're trying to blow me up. A fairly average day. You know.
Either Belkov needs to get some better computer security or Vila is much better at sweet-talking computers than Mr-computer-tech Avon.
Computer games, even rather lethal ones, seem an odd way to protect anything. I can forgive it though for the amusement factor of seeing the way there's a game just cut out for each of the people who go over to the Orbiter - oh, and for the look on Tarrant's face when Vila grabs his foot. ;-)
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