From: Sally Manton smanton@hotmail.com
Here's another little exercise, if anyone's interested, in two parts:
If you could change just three things about the series - with no restrictions on cast, budget, scripting etc - what would they be? (Obviously, *my* first would be "don't let Blake go.")
Hmm - takes some thought to restrict myself to three, here, but this is the verdict:
1) Make sure David Maloney stays on as producer for the fourth season so it might have been as taut and tense as most of the scripts deserved rather than camped up.
2) Don't let Stephen Grief bail out!
3) Show it after 9pm so it wasn't softened up for the kids (but having said that, if that had been the case I wouldn't have been allowed to atsy up and watch it!)
If you could change just three episodes, which are they and how would you do it?
1) Warlord. Ditch the crappy production including the bad hair and lightning effect and have it play out as the tense drama that's hiding in the script. And remove the line "Words are no more than words."
2) Weapon. Pick another director, any other director.
3) Stardrive. Make the Space Rats genuinely menacing, and have it play out as the tense drama etc.
Louise