On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 21:13:29 EST Bizarro7@aol.com writes:
I'm genuinely curious to know if BLAKES 7 would have been done very differently, if it appeared on the BBC now, rather than in the 70's. I suppose the answers to this question would be relevant if the show is ever revived, however many years later in the B7 timeline, but still--would it have been cast similarly? Would the demographic of the crew be the same? Anyone have any notions on the idea?
So many possibilities . . . .
It could go either way. On the good side, there might have been stronger scripts for the female characters. Special effects that open up new possibilities they couldn't afford before. Maybe the best thing since Shakespeare would do the writing and . . . well, fill in the blanks. Maybe it would come closer to whatever each of us feels was the full potential, the Platonic ideal, of the show.
OTOH, maybe computer special effects would have outweighed storyline concerns, meaningless violence would be used as filler everytime they felt they had done what they could with the idea, the financial backing would be pushing to water down anything vaguely intelligent under the theory it would alienate the target audience, and Crusade gets cancelled after . . . . Oops, I mean B7.
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