Jolly good, Iain!
The "lost religion" is too cliché for words. With language like "New
bounty
has come from the darkness." Sheesh!
This is also a major theme in Golden Age detective stories--fringe religions are ALWAYS sandal-wearing muttering nutters. BTW, do you think this episode was a conscious influence on the Angel production team? The priests in the latest (US) episode remind me of Vargas & Co.
So Blake, Jenna and Avon are on a new and strange ship. The survival priorities should be air, water, food, heat & light, but they don't even discuss these things. In other episodes we know they don't take these things for granted, so what is going on here?
My story "Good Housekeeping" (available on The Hermit Library) deals with some of these questions--WARNING: It's a (non-explicit) slash story, so for people who do not like that sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they do not like.
Jenna names the ship "Liberator", too bad she isn't in charge of the whole operation. At least she would tell everyone what is going on more than Blake does, and she can certainly stand up to geeky old Avon.
Presumably she was NOT piloting DSVs as a "free trader"--piloting skills must a) be very transferable and b) easy to acquire--in Time Squad, Avon, Vila, and Gan, none of whom presumably so much as drove a Citroen 2CV before are performing complex docking maneuvers
Even when they are stuck on the planet, Vila is still telling jokes - does he take nothing seriously?
Well, I can't say I blame him, I hope I'd be able to do the same.
There have been many SFX criticisms of B7, but one of my favourite things
is
the "white outline" teleportation trick. BUT why does Blake say to bring him back in four minutes and not a shorter time. Oh, I know, it is just enough time for "Mr. Bumble" to get into trouble.
And where is he carrying the boatload of teleport bracelets Vargas heaps on the table? I believe in manga/anime this is referred to as "weaponspace."
Surely Vila would have a replica shirt - probably Man City :-).
Perhaps a thousand years from now, Man City supporters wear suede crossing guard outfits.
-(Y)