--- Helen wrote: > Stephen said:
Oh, is that what they were about? I know I've seen the episode several times, and Servalan did state it clearly, but it seemed rather out of place in the whole story to me. I suppose I didn't feel the connection because, I never thought of it as anything other than just a badly conceived science experiment that showed one possiblity out of innumerable ones.
In real life you'd have been quite right of course ! But I think that the metaphysical assumption behind Blake's 7 are that life is short, futile and essentially meaningless. In a perverse way that's part of it's charm, especially when compared to the somewhat Panglossian world view of, for example, TNG.
Stephen.
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