On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 01:52:53PM +0100, Stephen Date wrote:
Oh, Boucher and Nation made B7 IMO. If anyone else had done it we'd have got the same names but a different (and in most cases I can think of, inferior) product.
Other Script Editors:
Terry Nation: Would have kept Blake as a much less ambiguous hero. The Andromedans would have travelled around in shiny pepperpots (Mark 3 travel machines) and said "exterminate" a lot.
This reminds me of a quote from Flanders & Swann... "... satire squats, hoof in mouth, under every bush. The job of satire is to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half-truth. Our job, as I see it, is to put it back again."
The reason B7 worked so well is because you had the mixture. Boucher was like Satire -- stripping off illusions and painting everything shades of grey. Nation was "putting it back again" -- giving us noble heros and bad baddies. The synergy between the two gave us that adorable alchemy of flawed heros.
Kathryn Andersen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Timbo: If I was going to misspell something, I could do it ten times better than Tony can. (07-06-88)