--- J MacQueen j_macqueen@hotmail.com wrote: >
I still have problems with Sand, having first seen it at the same age and with the same reaction as Helen to Excalibur. The twelve-year-old me who thought vampire sand was stupid keeps rearing its less than aesthetically pleasing head whenever I try to suspend disbelief. Strangely, there would've been things even less believable in Doctor Who episodes being shown around the same time, yet I seem to have accepted them within their stories without fuss or much in the way of thought.
What does and what does not spoil people's watching of B7 ? As far as I am concerned Vampire Sand is very silly (as was that scene in Excalibur). On the other hand the galactic minefield in Star One is also silly, but doesn't stop me rating Star One as my favourite episode. Probably because the minefield is a symbolic minefield - it could have been something else without changing anything fundamental. I suppose for Tarrant and/ or Servalan fans, who like Sand, getting them stranded together is more important than the Sand itself.
What plot holes/ dodgy special effects are forgivable and which make episodes incurably naff ? I offer the shoot out in Hostage (that bit of string ?!) as my own sacrificial candidate.
Stephen.
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