In a message dated 3/1/01 12:23:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, julia.jones@jajones.demon.co.uk writes:
<< There are lots of things like this scattered through the cultures concerned (and a fair few of the obvious ones date from the different experiences of the World Wars). To me, the culture depicted in B7 is descended from the one on the east side of the pond... >>
But what specific incidents in the Blakes 7 *universe* (not in the production values or the actor's accents) dictate or even show the audience that the people in B7 are all meant to be descended from a British society? You gave a great example of a difference in mindset between Americans and Brits, but how does that relate to B7 itself? We never saw the incident of your example happen on B7...and it doesn't even make sense that we would, because you were relating the mindset back to war-time rationing during World War II. In the society we see in B7, there doesn't seem to be any remembrance of World War II or of "our" world at all. In fact, if there *are* elements in B7 that are distinctly British than I would be interested in knowing *why*. Because, given that the culture supposedly exists far in the future and in what appears to be post-apocalyptic type domes, I would find it hard to believe that British culture of today would have survived. As I pointed out in an earlier post, if you could go back in time a few hundred years, the mindset and the culture would be different in very many ways.
Annie